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Babylonian Creation Myths (Hardcover)
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Babylonian Creation Myths (Hardcover)
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For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert
devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of
Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding
creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which
appears almost exactly 2 years after Lambert's death, distills a
lifetime of learning by the world's foremost expert on these texts.
Lambert provides a full transliteration and translation of the 7
tablets of Enuma Elish, based on the known exemplars, as well as
coverage of a number of other texts that bear on, or are thought to
bear on, Mesopotamian notions of the origin of the world, mankind,
and the gods. New editions of seventeen additional "creation tales"
are provided, including "Enmesharra's Defeat," "Enki and Ninmah,"
"The Slaying of Labbu," and "The Theogony of Dunnu." Lambert pays
special attention, of course, to the connection of the main epic,
Enuma Elish, with the rise and place of Marduk in the Babylonian
pantheon. He traces the development of this deity's origin and rise
to prominence and elaborates the relationship of this text, and the
others discussed, to the religious and political climate Babylonia.
The volume includes 70 plates (primarily hand-copies of the various
exemplars of Enuma Elish) and extensive indexes.
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