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Sumerian Mythology
Samuel Noah Kramer
其他書名
A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.
出版Pickle Partners Publishing, 2020-03-05
主題History / Ancient / EgyptHistory / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Ancient / GreeceHistory / Ancient / Rome
ISBN18397429419781839742941
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7oLUDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who flourished in southern Babylonia from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the third millennium B.C. During this long stretch of time the Sumerians, whose racial and linguistic affiliations are still unclassifiable, represented the dominant cultural group of the entire Near East. This cultural dominance manifested itself in three directions:

1. It was the Sumerians who developed and probably invented the cuneiform system of writing which was adopted by nearly all the peoples of the Near East and without which the cultural progress of western Asia would have been largely impossible.

2. The Sumerians developed religious and spiritual concepts together with a remarkably well integrated pantheon which influenced profoundly all the peoples of the Near East, including the Hebrews and the Greeks. Moreover, by way of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism, not a few of these spiritual and religious concepts have permeated the modern civilized world.

3. The Sumerians produced a vast and highly developed literature, largely poetic in character, consisting of epics and myths, hymns and lamentations, proverbs and “words of wisdom.” These compositions are inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets which date largely from approximately 2000 B.C.