Biblical parallels from Sumerian literature
Subtitle: Handbook on the special exhibit in honor of the American-Jewish tercentenary, 1654-1954
By: Text by Samuel N. Kramer, with the collaboration of Edmund I.Gordon
Contributors: Gordon, Edmund I., joint author; University of Pennsylvania. University Museum; Gordon, Edmund I., author
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania, The University Museum
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Sumerian literature; History and criticism
Table of contents: title: I. Biblical parallels from Sumerian literature; title: Creation of the universe; title: Creation of man; title: Paradise; title: The earth and its organization; title: Man's golden age; title: The Cain-Abel motif; title: The Flood; title: Sheol or Hades; title: Resurrection of a goddess; title: Tammuz; title: Kings and chronicles; title: Hymns and psalms; title: Lamentations; title: A man and his god: A Sumerian "Job"; title: Proverbs; title: Fables; title: Laws; title: WInged genius, slab from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria, 883-859 B.C.; title: II. The Jews of the "Babylonian exile"; title: III. Incantation bowls.