Jeremy A. Black

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the work of many scholars and from our ever-increasing understanding of Sumerian. In addition to reflecting the advances made by modern scholarship, the translations are written in clear, accessible English. An extensive introduction discusses the literary qualities of the works, the people who created and copied them in ancient Iraq, and how the study of Sumerian literature has evolved over the last 150 years.

The Literature of Ancient Sumer

Hermann Gasche

Achilles Gautier

R. G. Killick

R. Nijs

G. Stoops

Habl As-Sahr 1983-85: Nebuchadnezzar II's Cross-country Wall North of Sippar

Tina Breckwoldt

A. R. George

J. N. Postgate

The authorship of this dictionary is enough to state that no Akkadianist will want to be without it. It is incredibly good value for money.

A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian

All the works studied in this volume have been published before, with the exception of a few new fragmentary texts in the revised appendices 5.3 and 5.4. The present detailed investigation takes it as excuse that while these works are often caled as witnesses in support of various philological arguments, no unified attempt to evaluate them in their context as the products of an ancient scholarly discipline has so far appeared. The Author tries to show that current analyses of the Sumerian forms into tenses or 'aspects' are based on a misunderstanding of the way the Babylonians set some of their tenses (or aspects or whatever they are) against Sumerian forms in these grammatical texts. Then the Author describes the various ways in which the choice of forms may operate in Sumerian, and finally makes a suggestion as to how these might have developed.

Sumerian Grammar in Babylonian Theory

Jeremy A. Black

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