• Samuel Noah Kramer (September 28, 1897 – November 26, 1990) was one of the world's leading Assyriologists, an expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language...
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    were believed to be the offspring of An and the earth goddess Ki. Samuel Noah Kramer identifies Ki with the Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag, stating...
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    Character, by Samuel Noah Kramer, University of Chicago Press, 1963, p. 7 The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character, by Samuel Noah Kramer, University...
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  • name appears only in a limited number of Sumerian creation texts. Samuel Noah Kramer identifies Ki with the Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag and claims...
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    documented by Edward Chiera in Sumerian Epics and Myths, number 46. Samuel Noah Kramer included CBS tablets 3167, 10431, 13857, 29.13.464, 29.16.142 (which...
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    increased to two hundred lines and the myth called cattle and grain by Samuel Noah Kramer in 1959; he called it the "second myth significant for the Sumerian...
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    "Sumerian Religious Texts" in 1924. Hermann Volrath Hilprecht and Samuel Noah Kramer amongst others worked to translate several others from the Istanbul...
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    Publications. ISBN 978-0-86717-552-3. Samuel Noah Kramer (1959). Anchor Paperback. Doubleday Anchor Books. Samuel Noah Kramer (1969). Cradle of Civilization...
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  • later sources from Epic of Gilgamesh. The text was reconstructed by Samuel Noah Kramer, who produced a critical edition and translation of the text in 1944...
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    of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. Samuel Noah Kramer proposed that, according to the introductory passage of the ancient...
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    from the hymn in "Sumerian Epics and Myths". He also worked with Samuel Noah Kramer to publish three other tablets CBS 8473, 10226, 13869 in "Sumerian...
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    fragments found at Nippur, in what is now Iraq, was translated by Samuel Noah Kramer in 1952. These fragments are held at the Istanbul Archaeology Museums...
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    complete translation was published in 1936. However, for the historian Samuel Noah Kramer, the narrative remained incomplete. A considerable number of passages...
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    themselves before him... — Sumerian hymn to Enlil, translated by Samuel Noah Kramer Enlil was the patron god of the Sumerian city-state of Nippur and...
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    13864 were documented by Edward Chiera in "Sumerian Epics and Myths". Samuel Noah Kramer included CBS tablets 8531, 10310, 10335, 29.16.23, 29.16.436. He also...
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    collection of the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul (Ni). Samuel Noah Kramer amongst others worked to translate several others from the Istanbul...
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    g., by the Hittites, Hurrians and Canaanites). Sumeria historian Samuel Noah Kramer wrote that later Greek as well as Hebrew texts "were profoundly influenced...
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  • Noah Kramer, Samuel, "Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth" - a modern, poetic reinterpretation of Inanna myths Wolkstein, Diane, and Samuel Noah Kramer...
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    column of Barton's tablet in "Sumerian Epics and Myths", number 77. Samuel Noah Kramer included CBS tablets 8176, 8315, 10309, 10322, 10412, 13853, 29.13...
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  • the later Talmudic concept of Lilith (female) and lilin (female). Samuel Noah Kramer (1932, published 1938) translated ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as Lilith in...
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  • or languages which was considered by some Assyriologists (such as Samuel Noah Kramer) to be the substratum language of the people who introduced farming...
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    such as the Debate Between Winter and Summer, which Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer has noted as paralleling the story of Cain and Abel in the Book of...
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    Biblical Lit, p. 137 Kramer, Samuel Noah (1984). Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East: Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer. American Oriental Society...
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  • player Samuel Noah Kramer (1897–1990), Ukraine-born American historian and assyriologist Sarah Kramer (born 1968), Canadian cookbook author Shalom Kramer (1912–1978)...
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    where the sun rises". The Sumerian word "KUR" is an ambiguous word. Samuel Noah Kramer states that "its primary meanings is 'mountain' is attested by the...
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    least sometimes shaped like naked women. According to the scholar Samuel Noah Kramer, towards the end of the third millennium BC, kings of Uruk may have...
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    Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 5 September 2024. Kramer, Samuel Noah (1968). "The 'Babel of Tongues': A Sumerian Version". Journal of...
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    exist where Līlīt and Līlītu refers to disease-bearing wind spirits. Samuel Noah Kramer (1932, published 1938) translated ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as "Lilith" in...
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  • University Press. pp. 325–. ISBN 978-0-19-929633-0. Retrieved 2 June 2011. Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians, Chicago University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-226-45238-7...
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    some instances, the terms Anunnaki and Igigi are used synonymously. Samuel Noah Kramer, writing in 1963, stated that the three most important deities in...
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