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Sumerian literature appears to us as the first rays of literary dawn in history, like the twilight emerging from the darkness of prehistory, inaugurating the first steps toward the civilizations of the ancient world, which would also build a high-caliber literature.
This literary dawn remains astonishing in its freshness and the spontaneity of its expressions, still imbued with the clay and water, as if they were a chapter from the first verses of creation. It is the literature and poetry of rivers, silt, and trees, the tales of early heroes, the nights of people and their stories, the proverbs and initial concepts in the nascent stage of their consciousness and wisdom. It is the price of the first villages and cities, patiently and deliberately weaving their light.
Sumerian literature is the first seed from which poetry, narrative, drama, and wisdom sprouted. In its repository, the clay tablets are still fresh, and the spirits of the gods still search for a bed to rest upon and for the remains of a temple to inhale its incense. This book attempts to present this literature in a distinctive way, employing a new genre framework that has long been overlooked by authors and researchers in this field. We have established genre rules that align with the general literature of the ancient world, and its earliest Sumerian forms in particular. We have translated Sumerian texts, which remain among the earliest literary texts in the world, and provided them with appropriate analysis and detailed information.
Undoubtedly, this book is the first of its kind dedicated exclusively to Sumerian literature.
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