The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic
Language: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Good. Clean text, sound binding. Dustjacket is edgworn and lightly soiled with some small tears, protected by Brodart. Previous owner's name on FFEP. Binding lightly concave at spine. 384 pp.
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- Title
- The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic
- Author
- Tigay, Jeffrey H.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication year
- 1982
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0812278054
- ISBN 13
- 9780812278057
The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the world's oldest known epics: it predates Homer by several centuries and is recognized as seminal to the cultural history of the Ancient Near East. Interpretation and decipherment of the story of Gilgamesh—fragmentary and contradictory as its several variants are—has been a monumental scholarly task, spanning more than a century. In this volume, Jeffrey H. Tigay traces the development of the composition of the Gilgamesh Epic over nearly two millennia and through the several languages in which it has been transmitted. The result is a study both comprehensive in breadth and impressive in methodology. The author breaks from his scholarly predecessors in relying on documented textual evidence rather than on critical analysis and hypotheses.
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"An important book, rich in detail. . . . Scholars of literature, the history of religions, of biblical studies, or, for that matter, devotees of Gilgamesh and his legends will find the book rewarding."—Religious Studies Review
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