Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Treasures of DarknessCondition: NewEAN: 9780300022919ISBN: 9780300022919Publisher: Yale University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/10/1978Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 363gAuthor: Thorkild JacobsenLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A History of Mesopotamian ReligionISBN-10: 0300022913Description: A recreation of the spiritual life of ancient Mesopotamia demonstrating that the roots of Western civilization lie in the ancient Near East“A brilliant presentation of Mesopotamian religion from the inside, backed at every point by meticulous scholarship and persistent adherence to original texts. . . . A classic in its field.”—Religious Studies Review“The Treasures of Darkness is the culmination of a lifetime’s work, an attempt to summarize and recreate the spiritual life of Ancient Mesopotamia. Jacobsen has succeeded brilliantly. . . . His vast experience shows through every page of this unique book, through the vivid, new translations resulting from years of careful research. Everyone interested in early Mesopotamia, whether specialist, student, or complete layman, should read this book. . . . It is, quite simply, authoritative, based on a vast experience of the ancient Mesopotamian mind, and very well written in the bargain.”—Brian M. Fagan, History “Professor Jacobsen is an authority on Sumerian life and society, but he is above all a philologist of rare sensibility. The Treasures of Darkness is almost entirely devoted to textual evidence, the more gritty sources of archaeological knowledge being seldom mentioned. He introduces many new translations which are much finer than previous versions. . . . Simply to read this poetry and the author’s sympathetic commentary is a pleasure and a revelation. Professor Jacobsen accepts the premise that all religion springs from man’s experience of a power not of this world, a mysterious ‘Wholly Other.’ This numinous power cannot be described in terms of worldly experience but only in allusive ‘metaphors’ that serve as a means of communication in religious teaching and thought. . . . As a literary work combining sensibility, imagination and scholarship, this book is near perfection.”—Jacquetta Hawkes, The London Sunday Times “A fascinating book. The general reader cannot fail to admire the translated passages of Sumerian poetry with which it abounds, especially those illustrating the Dumuzi-Inanna cycle of courtship, wedding and lament for the god’s untimely death. Many of these (though not all) are new even to the specialist and will repay close study.”—B.O.R. Gurney, Times Literary SupplementCountry/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 1978 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Treasures of Darkness
Title: The Treasures of Darkness
EAN: 9780300022919
ISBN: 9780300022919
Release Date: 09/10/1978
Release Year: 1978
Subtitle: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
ISBN-10: 0300022913
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Treasures of Darkness : a History of Mesopotamian Religion
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Ancient / General, Comparative Religion, History
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 1978
Item Weight: 15.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Thorkild Jacobsen
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Religion, History
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback