Reading Sumerian Poetry A Study Of The Oldest Literature Author Jeremy Black Published On January 2001. The aim in that study is to evaluate the tracks of literary structure of the Sumerian poem which is one of the first. examples of literary work, based on ontological perspective, with the stylistics' examination methods for literary. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Presents the literary heritage of It is required reading for all who are interested in ancient intellectual cultures, in the study of the oldest. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Most Sumerian literature is preserved indirectly, via Assyrian or Babylonian copies.
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The manuscript, a one-column The author of this text appears to be familiar both with the literary corpus and the royal inscriptions of the Old Babylonian period.
The Sumerians were inventive and skilled technologically. The oldest written manuscripts we have are poems, mostly epic poems telling the stories of ancient mythology. Most Sumerian literature is preserved indirectly, via Assyrian or Babylonian copies.