The world's oldest literature : studies in Sumerian belles-lettres /

Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their cur...

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Main Author: Hallo, William W.

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 35.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004222724.

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Call Number: PJ4045 .H35 2010

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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part I. Programmatics /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part II. C Atalogues And Other Scholia /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part III. Royal And Divine Hymns /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part IV. Letter-Prayers /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part V. Royal Correspondence /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part VI. Historiography /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part VII. Myths And Epics /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part VIII. Proverbs /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part IX. Incantations /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Part X. Sumerian Literature And The Bible /  |r W.W. Hallo --   |t Indexes /  |r W.W. Hallo. 
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