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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> <meta name=generator content="mshtml 8.00.6001.23501"></head> <body> <P>Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition <EM>Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld</EM>, 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 <EM>Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld</EM> 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.</P></body></html>
- Author
- Gadotti, Alhena
- Publisher
- De Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.; de Gruyter
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781614518549