Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts

by Albert Kirk Grayson

Overview

Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia. There are myriads of tablets lying in the ancient ruins of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, waiting for the excavator's spade; in museums there are quantities of inscriptions that have not yet been made public.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487599249
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/1975
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

A. Kirk Grayson is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto.