The Divine Appointment of the First Antediluvian King
Newly Recovered Content from the Ur Version of the Sumerian Flood Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7878879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremiah Peterson (Cedar Rapids Public Library, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-51 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0256 • E-ISSN: 2325-6737 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5615/jcunestud.70.2018.0037 |
| OpenAlex | W2810813284 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
A newly reconstructed manuscript of the Sumerian Flood Story from Old Babylonian Ur furnishes us with further content of the composition, most notably the divine appointment of the first king, Alulim of Eridu. It appears that this text contained an etiology for the pervasive royal image of the king as shepherd of the people
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Composition (language · Content (measure theory · Flood myth · Literature · Sumerian · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |