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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

Sumerian Mythology: Chapter I. The Scope and Significance...

Ancient MesopotamiaCuneiform WritingSamuel Noah KramerSumerian Mythology

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The science of comparative mythology, like almost all the sciences, exact and inexact, is largely a product of the nineteenth century; its origin and development followed closely upon that of comparative philology, the science devoted to language and literature. The phenomenal growth of comparative philology itself was due primarily to the recognition that both Sanskrit, the language of the oldest sacred literature of the Hindu peoples, as well as Zend, or Old Persian, the language of the…

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