Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle

Alhena Gadotti

2014年8月 · Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 第 10 冊 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

關於這本電子書

Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.

關於作者

Alhena Gadotti, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA.