Pacifying the hearts of the gods
Subtitle: Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first millennium BC
By: Uri Gabbay
Series: Heidelberger Emesal-Studien -- 1; Heidelberger Emesal-Studien -- Bd. 1.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9783447067485
Subjects: Religion; Sumerians; Emesal dialect; Rites and ceremonies
Other titles: Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first mlllenium BC
Notes: "This book is a revised, expanded, and rewritten version of the first part of my dissertation ... submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007"--Page [xix].

"Pacifying the hearts of the gods investigates the corpus of Emesal prayers, i.e., prayers composed in the Emesal register of the Sumerian language that are known from cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of the second millennium BC up to the end of the first millennium BC. ... The content of the prayers is usually lamentful, mourning the destruction of various Mesopotamian cities and temples ..."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-301) and indexes.

In English, includes foreword in German.