Peeter Espak

Peeter Espak is an Estonian Orientalist, theologian and Assyriologist who serves as Associate Professor of Sumerian Mythology and Literature in the Centre for Oriental Studies at the University of Tartu.
His work has been published by the likes of Harrassowitz Verlag, Society of Biblical Literature, Ugarit-Verlag, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Zaphon and Armand Colin.
== Notable works ==
* The God Enki In Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology - PhD-Thesis
*Passing to the Underworld in Sumerian Texts
*Buying a slave's freedom in Assyria: A Cuneiform Tablet in the University of Tartu's Museum of Art - with Vladimir Sazonov
*Evolution toward the concept of Holy War in the Ancient Near East
*Some Early Developments in Sumerian God-Lists and Pantheon
*The Emergence of the Concept of Divine Warfare and Theology of War in the Ancient Near East
*Sumerian inim, Hebrew דבר יהוה and Polynesian mana in the Early Theories of Uku Masing
*Genesis 4,1 and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology: How Was the First Man Born?
*Was Eridu The First City in Sumerian Mythology?
*Public Speaking in Ancient Mesopotamia: Speeches before Earthly and Divine Battles - with Andreas Johandi
*The Establishment of Ur III Dynasty From the Gutians to the Formation of the Neo-Sumerian Imperial Ideology and Pantheon
*One Possible Interpretation of the Structure of the Early Sumerian Pantheon
*Conceptualizing Past, Present and Future in Ancient Near East and Greece
*Male Sages in Sumerian Literature
*The Transformation of the Sumerian Temple Hymns
*Slave Buying His Own Freedom in Assyria - with Vladimir Sazonov
*The Emergence of the Concept of Divine Warfare and Theology of War in the Ancient Near East
*Cultural Crossroads in the Middle East: The Historical, Cultural and Political Legacy of Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict from the Ancient Near East to the Present Day
*What a God is Not. The Earliest Sources from a Comparative Perspective
*Genesis 11, 1–9 and its Sumerian Predecessors in Comparative Perspective: Early Views on “National Culture” and its Nature
== Liks ==
* Google Scholar
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