Pacifying the hearts of the gods
Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first millennium BC
by Uri Gabbay
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Pacifying the hearts of the gods: Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first millennium BC
2014, Harrassowitz Verlag
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3447067489 9783447067485
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"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.
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