TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen, Mark Elliot
TI  - Sumerian hymnology, The Eršemma
T2  - Hebrew Union College annual. Supplements; 
SN  - 0-87820-601-9
SN  - 02759993
U1  - 892.171 
PY  - 1981///
CY  - Cincinnati
PB  - Hebrew Union College
KW  - Hymns, Sumerian
KW  - Sumerian language
KW  - Texts
KW  - Emesal dialect
KW  - Translations into English
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - The ersemma is one of two (possibly three) genres of literature written in the Sumerian Emesal dialect. Texts exist in copies from the Old Babylonian period, although they were authored much earlier. They were preserved likely because they were part of a fixed liturgy recited on select days of the month. Mark E. Cohen discusses the characteristics of this genre and its evolution, the circumstances of its composition, and the cultic setting in which it was typically used. He also provides a catalog of examples as well as transliterations and translations of selected texts with commentary. Examples come from the British Museum, the Yale Babylonian Collection, the University Museum Collection, the Oriental Institute, the Staatliche Museen Berlin, and the Metropolitan Museum
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