Description
Book SynopsisThe Festschrift containing 37 contributions celebrates the scholarly achievements of the two outstanding Assyriologists, Walter Sommerfeld (University of Marburg) and Manfred Krebernik (University of Jena). The primary focus of the volume corresponds to the main topics of interests of Professors Sommerfeld and Krebernik – Pre-Sargonic and Sargonic Mesopotamia and third millennium Syria. The volume also features a few contributions dealing with Sumerian language, Mesopotamian literature and the early history of Akkadian and its Semitic background.
Trade Review"This splendid combined Festschrift for two of the dies superiores of third-millennium studies offers thirty-seven essays by forty-two authors, mostly spanning the Uruk IV to the Old Babylonian periods. (...) Along the way the authors discuss the nature and consequence of human praise of divinities and the meaning of Inanna’s attribute kù “radiant” or “brilliant.” These last properties well describe the cumulative effect of these studies in honor of two master scholars who have played a leading role in the exploration of the recalcitrant, fascinating, and evergrowing treasury of Mesopotamian written sources of the third millennium BCE." - Benjamin R. Foster, Yale University, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 142.2 (2022).
