Love Songs in Sumerian Literature: Critical Edition of the Dumuzi-Inanna Songs

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Bar-Ilan University Press, 1998 - Music - 445 pages
"[Volume] is a collection of all the sources, published and unpublished, dealing with the love, courtship and sacred marriage of the Mesopotamian love-goddess Inanna (Ishtar) and her divine spouse Dumuzi (Tammuz). This literary corpus composed during the Third Dynasty of Ur and the early Old Babylonian period (ca. 2100-1800 BCE) consist of 27 songs with approximately 1500 lines of poetry"--Jacket.

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SACRED MARRIAGE AND THE DUMUZIINANNA SONGS
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Evidence for the Sacred Marriage Rite in the Dumuzi
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