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Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts2 Volumes

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ISBN-10: 0198149220

ISBN-13: 9780198149224

Edition: 2003

Authors: A. R. George

List price: $595.00
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The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is the oldest long poem in the world, with a history going back four thousand years. It tells the fascinating and moving story of Gilgamesh's heroic deeds and lonely quest for immortality. This book collects for the first time all the known sources in the original cuneiform, including many fragments never published before. The author's personal study of every available fragment has produced a definitive edition and translation, complete with comprehensive introductory chapters that place the poem and its hero in context.
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Book details

List price: $595.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/25/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1176
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.69" long x 2.83" tall
Weight: 5.016

Andrew George Jr. is a member of the Wetsuweten Nation in British Columbia. He participated on the first all-Native team at the Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt, Germany, and was head chef at the Four Host First Nations pavilion at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In 2012 he was part of a delegation of chefs from 25 countries on a US State Department initiative called "Culinary Diplomacy: Promoting Cultural Understanding Through Food." He develops Native menus for restaurants and hotels internationally, and teaches cooking to Native students. His first book was A Feast for All Seasons.

The literary history of the epic of Gilgamesh
Introduction
The name of Gilgamesh and its history
Literary, historical, and religious traditions about Gilgamesh
Enkidu and others
Old Babylonian Tablets and fragments
The older versions of the epic
Middle Babylonian tablets and fragments
Assyrian fragments of one or more intermediate recensions
The manuscripts of the standard Babylonian epic
The Standard Babylonian Epic
Introduction to the text of the standard Babylonian epic
Synopsis and exegesis of the standard Babylonian epic
Edition of the standard Babylonian epic
Bilgames and the netherworld 172-end
Critical and philological notes on the standard Babylonian epic
Bibliography
Index of cuneiform tablets and other objects
Cuneiform texts
Plates