Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie.(Review) From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: DE MIEROOP, MARC VAN | COPYRIGHT 2001 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie. By HERMAN VANSTIPHOUT. Nijmegen: UITGEVERIJ SUN, 1998. Pp. 253. HFI 39.50.

The study of Sumerian literature is flourishing. In the last two decades a small but very active group of scholars has taken the study of this literature to a new level, by exposing it to methods of analysis borrowed and adapted from the field of literary criticism. The original, and obvious...

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