BOOKS by Samuel N Kramer

Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character more books like this

by Samuel N Kramer

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer ...

see all copies from $8.45!

new only from $17.50! | SVS

History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History / more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer, Hiroshi Tanaka

Which civilization had the first system of law? The first formal educational system? The first tax cut? The first love song? The answers were found in excavations of ancient Sumer, a society so developed, resourceful, and enterprising that it, in a sense, created history. The book presents a cross section of the Sumerian "firsts" in all the major ...

see all copies from $9.25!

new only from $18.73! | SVS

Sumerian Mythology more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer

see all copies from $6.00!

new only from $11.17! | signed copies | SVS

Mythologies of the Ancient World more books like this

by Noah Kramer, Samuel N Kramer (Editor)

Ten leading scholars take a fresh look at ancient mythologies in a work that can be read with pleasure and intellectual profit by both the specialist and the general reader. Includes chapters on the mythologies of ancient Egypt, the Middle East, Greece, India, China, and more.

see all copies from $2.00!

first editions

In the World of Sumer: An Autobiography more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer

see all copies from $3.40!

new only from $4.98! | first editions

History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Man's Recorded History more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer

see all copies from $19.50!

first editions

Sumerian mythology; a study of spiritual and literary achievement in the third millennium B.C. more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer

see all copies from $4.50!

new only from $39.28! | first editions

History Begins at Sumer: Twenty-Seven Firsts in Man's Recorded History more books like this

by Samuel N. Kramer

see all copies from $2.44!

new only from $18.50!

Gilgamesh and the Huluppu-Tree: A Reconstructed Sumerian Text

by Samuel N Kramer

see all copies from $10.10!

new only from $12.38! | SVS

From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer

see all copies from $37.00!

first editions

The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer

see all copies from $149.95!

first editions

Sumerian Literary Texts Ashmolean Museum more books like this

by Oliver R. Gurney (Editor), Samuel N. Kramer (Editor)

see all copies from $75.00!

new only from $134.54!

Myths of Enki, the Crafty God more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer, John R Maier

This study brings together translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki, one of four gods and goddesses who comprised the highest level of the Sumerian pantheon. The very existence of these writings, which date from the Third Millenium BC, was unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script was deciphered. ...

see all copies from $145.00!

first editions

Cradle of Civilization more books like this

by Samuel N. Kramer

see all copies from $1.99!

first editions | SVS

History begins at Sumer. more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer

see all copies from $2.50!

L'histoire commence à Sumer more books like this

by Samuel Noah Kramer

see all copies from $46.00!