When Heroes Love The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

Name: When Heroes Love The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David
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ISBN: 9780231132602

ISBN-10: 0231132603

ISBN-13: 9780231132602

Edition: 2005

Authors: Susan Ackerman

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Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, along with other ambiguous erotic and sexual language found in the Gilgamesh epic and the biblical David story, have become the object of numerous and competing scholarly inquiries into the sexual nature of the heroes' relationships. Susan Ackerman's innovative work carefully examines the stories' sexual and homoerotic language and suggests that its ambiguity provides new ways of understanding ideas…

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Abbreviations


Prologue



Of Greeting Cards and Methods: Understanding Ancient Near Eastern Sex


The Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh



Introducing Gilgamesh



Gilgamesh and Enkidu



The Liminal Hero, Part 1



The Liminal Hero, Part 2


The Biblical Story of David and Jonathan



Introducing David



David and Jonathan



Liminality and Beyond


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Citation Index