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This volume, dedicated to H.L.J. Vanstiphout at the occasion of his retirement from the University of Groningen, July 14th 2006, demonstrates the broad variety of scholarly approaches to the study of ancient Sumerian literature. It contains contributions by Bendt Alster (Ninurta and the Turtle), Nicole Brisch (In Praise of the Kings of Larsa), A.J. Ferrara (A Hodgepodge of Snippets), Alhena Gadotti (Gilgameš, Gudam and the Singer), W.W. Hallo (A Sumerian Apocryphon?), Dina Katz (Appeals to Utu), Jacob Klein (Man and His God), Piotr Michalowski (The Strange History of Tumal), Gonzalo Rubio (Šulgi and the Death of Sumerian), Niek Veldhuis (How Did They Learn Cuneiform?), and Claus Wilcke (Die Hymne auf das Heiligtum Keš).

Sumerian literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Sumerian literature. --- Littérature sumérienne --- Histoire et critique

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Sumerian language --- Mythology, Sumerian --- Sumerian literature --- Sumérien (Langue) --- Mythologie sumérienne --- Littérature sumérienne --- Texts --- Textes --- 222.2 --- 892.1 --- Genesis --- Akkadische, Sumerische literatuur --- 892.1 Akkadische, Sumerische literatuur --- Sumérien (Langue) --- Mythologie sumérienne --- Littérature sumérienne

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Sumerians --- Sumerian language --- Sumerian literature --- Sumériens --- Sumérien (Langue) --- Littérature sumérienne --- Bibliography --- Bibliographie --- Sumerian philology. --- Sumerians. --- Sumerian philology --- Accadians (Sumerians) --- Akkadians (Sumerians) --- Civilization, Sumerian --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Ethnology --- Sumériens --- Sumérien (Langue) --- Littérature sumérienne --- Sumerian philology - Bibliography. --- Sumerians - Bibliography.

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This book uses insights from religious studies, literary theory, and the history of science for understanding the Sumerian composition Nanše and the Birds in the context of the Old Babylonian scribal school. The discussions of Babylonian religion, literature, and scholarship focus on the usefulness and relevance of these modern concepts for categorizing the ancient text. The volume presents the first critical edition of Nanše and the Birds , as well as editions of the hymn Nanše B and all third millennium and Old Babylonian lexical lists of birds. It includes 37 plates with photographs and line drawings, including many previously unpublished tablets. The final chapter discusses the identity and orthography of all Sumerian bird names in literary, administrative and lexical texts.

Nans?e and the birds. --- Sumerian literature - History and criticism. --- Sumerian literature --- Sumerians --- Birds --- History and criticism. --- Religion. --- Sumerian. --- Nanše and the birds. --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Littérature sumérienne --- Sumériens --- Oiseaux --- Nomenclature (Popular) --- Histoire et critique --- Religion --- Nomenclature populaire sumérienne --- Nan*se and the birds. --- Nanse and the birds --- History and criticism --- Sumerian --- Nanše et les oiseaux