Samuel Noah Kramer | Academic Influence

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PhD Assyriology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Samuel Noah Kramer was one of the world's leading Assyriologists, an expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language. After high school, he attended Temple University, before Dropsie University and the University of Pennsylvania, both in Philadelphia.

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Samuel Noah Kramer's Published Works

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Published Works

Land behind Baghdad: A History of Settlement on the Diyala Plains (1966) (224)
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (1964) (161)
History begins at Sumer (1973) (120)
Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (1983) (66)
History begins at Sumer : thirty-nine firsts in man's recorded history (1981) (63)
Schooldays: A Sumerian Composition Relating to the Education of a Scribe (1949) (48)
Myths of Enki, the Crafty God (1989) (46)
Cuneiform Tablets in the Collection of Lord Binning (1982) (43)
Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. (1945) (41)
The Oldest Literary Catalogue: A Sumerian List of Literary Compositions Compiled about 2000 B. C. (1942) (34)
Mythologies of the Ancient World (1961) (31)
Dilmun, the Land of the Living (1944) (30)
Business Documents of the New Babylonian Period, Ur Excavations Texts IV (1951) (29)
Kramer anniversary volume : cuneiform studies in honor of Samuel Noah Kramer (1976) (25)
The Death of Gilgamesh (1944) (25)
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta: A Sumerian Epic Tale of Iraq and Iran (1952) (23)
The Sacred Marriage Rite, Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer (1972) (23)
Gilgamesh and Agga (1949) (22)
Literary Texts from Ur VI, Part II (1963) (19)
The "Babel of Tongues": A Sumerian Version (1968) (17)
Dilmun: Quest for Paradise (1963) (16)
"Man and His God" a Sumerian Variation on the "Job" Motif (1969) (15)
Sumerian Wisdom Literature: A Preliminary Survey (1951) (13)
Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur (1941) (12)
From the Tablets of Sumer, Twenty-Five Firsts in Man's Recorded History (1957) (12)
Death and Nether World According to the Sumerian Literary Texts (1960) (10)
The Myth of Inanna and Bilulu (1953) (10)
Cradle of Civilization (1967) (10)
Langdon's Historical and Religious Texts from the Temple Library of Nippur-Additions and Corrections (1940) (9)
Sumerian Similes: A Panoramic View of Some of Man's Oldest Literary Images (1969) (7)
First pharmacopeia in man's recorded history. (1954) (7)
Sumerian Economic Texts from the First Dynasty of Isin (1955) (7)
Commerce and Trade: Gleanings from Sumerian Literature (1977) (7)
Sumerian literary texts in the Ashmolean Museum (1976) (7)
The Death of Ur-Nammu and His Descent to the Netherworld (1967) (7)
Gilgamesh and the Land of the Living (1947) (6)
The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. (1971) (6)
"Inanna's Descent to the Nether World" Continued and Revised. Second Part: Revised Edition of "Inanna's Descent to the Nether World" (1951) (6)
Enki and Ninḫursag : a Sumerian "Paradise" myth (1945) (6)
"Inanna's Descent to the Nether World" Continued and Revised (1950) (6)
The Death of Dumuzi: a New Sumerian Version (1980) (6)
Sumerian Theology and Ethics (1956) (6)
The Weeping Goddess: Sumerian Prototypes of the Mater Dolorosa (1983) (6)
Literary and religious texts (1963) (6)
Dumuzi's Annual Resurrection: An Important Correction to "Inanna's Descent" (1966) (5)
Business Documents of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Ur Excavations Texts III (1951) (5)
Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets (1950) (5)
Man's Golden Age: A Sumerian Parallel to Genesis XI. 1 (1943) (4)
New Tablets from Fara (1932) (4)
Enki and the Theology of EriduMyths of Enki, the Crafty God (1996) (4)
The Epic of Gilgameš and Its Sumerian Sources: A Study in Literary Evolution@@@The Epic of Gilgames and Its Sumerian Sources: A Study in Literary Evolution (1944) (4)
New Light on the Early History of the Ancient Near East (1948) (4)
The Sumerian Deluge Myth (1983) (3)
Shulgi of Ur: A Royal Hymn and a Divine Blessing (1967) (3)
In the World of Sumer: An Autobiography (1986) (3)
From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration (1979) (3)
Voices in Stone. The decipherment of ancient scripts and writings. Ernst Doblhofer. Translated by Mervyn Savill. Viking, New York, 1961. xi + 327 pp. Illus. $6 (1961) (3)
Corrections and Additions to SRT (1957) (3)
Sumerian culture and society : the cuneiform documents and their cultural significance (1975) (3)
Sumerian Literary Texts from Nippur in the Museum of the Ancient Orient at Istanbul (1949) (2)
Sumerian Literary Tablets and Fragments in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, II (1979) (2)
Literary and Religious Texts, First Part (1966) (2)
Cultural Anthropology and the Cuneiform Documents (1962) (2)
Studies in literature from the ancient Near East : dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (1987) (1)
In Search of Sumer a Personal Account of the Early Years (1983) (1)
Istanbul Eski-Sark Muzesindeki Nippur'da Bulunmus Sumer Edebi Metinleri / Sumerian Literary Texts from Nippur in the Museum of the Ancient Orient at Istanbul (1943) (1)
Corrections to 'The Epic of Gilgameš and Its Sumerian Sources'@@@Corrections to 'The Epic of Gilgames and Its Sumerian Sources' (1944) (1)
The First Case of Tax Reduction (1979) (1)
The Oldest Laws (1953) (1)
Inanna and Šulgi: A Sumerian Fertility Song (1969) (1)
Ishtar in the Nether World According to a New Sumerian Text (1940) (1)
BM 96927: A Prime Example of Ancient Scribal Redaction (1990) (1)
CT XLII: A Review Article (1964) (1)
The Sumerian prefix forms be- and bi- in the time of the earlier princes of Lagaš (1936) (1)
The verb in the Kirkuk tablets (1)
CT XXXVI: Corrigenda and Addenda (1974) (0)
Myth and Ritual in the Ancient Near East: An Archeological and Documentary Study. E. O. James. (1959) (0)
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta (1952) (0)
The Transliteration and Translation (1952) (0)
Samuel Noah Kramer: 10-06-1981 (1981) (0)
Sumer edebî tablet ve parçalari, 2 (Sumerian Literary Tablets and Fragments in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, 2)@@@Sumer edebi tablet ve parcalari, 2 (Sumerian Literary Tablets and Fragments in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, 2) (1984) (0)
Rivalry and Superiority: Two Dominant Features of the Sumerian Culture Pattern (1960) (0)
From the Tablets of Sumer: Twenty-Five Firsts in Man's Recorded History (1957) (0)
Book Review:The Evolution of Urban Society: Early Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mexico Robert McC. Adams (1968) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Symbols of Prehistoric Mesopotamia. Beatrice Louise Goff (1964) (0)
HTR volume 49 issue 2 Front matter (1956) (0)
Collations to CT XLII (1970) (0)
Gilgamesh and the Willow Tree. (1936) (0)
A Letter from Dr. S. N. Kramer (Istanbul) (1946) (0)
Interim Report of Work in the Museum at Istanbul (To October 16, 1946) (1946) (0)
The Cambridge Ancient History. Fascicles 36–38, 40–45. Cambridge University Press. 1965. (6s. or $1.25 each) (1966) (0)
From the poetry of Sumer : preview of a supplement to ANET (1969) (0)
HTR volume 49 issue 3 Front matter (1956) (0)
The Face of the Ancient Orient . A panorama of Near Eastern civilizations in pre-classical times. Sabatino Moscati. Quadrangle Books, Chicago, Ill., 1960 (published in Italy as II Profilo Dell'Oriente Mediterraneo ). xvi + 328 pp. Plates. (1960) (0)
A Father and His Perverse Son (1957) (0)
Letters from Mesopotamia: Oficial, Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tabtets from Two Millennia. A. LEO OPPENHEIM (1968) (0)
The Face of the Ancient Orient. A panorama of Near Eastern civilizations in pre-classical times. Sabatino Moscati. Quadrangle Books, Chicago, Ill., 1960 (published in Italy as II Profilo Dell'Oriente Mediterraneo). xvi + 328 pp. Plates (1960) (0)
Annex A: Memorial Minute for Ephraim A. Speiser (1966) (0)
The Burden of Egypt. John A. Wilson (1952) (0)
The Tablet Collection of the University Museum (1947) (0)
A Tablet of Historical Significance from Nippur (1979) (0)
ASIA AND OCEANIA: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East. H. and H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen, William A. Irwin (1948) (0)
Istanbul Eski-Sark Muzesindeki Nippur'da Bulunmus Sumer Edebi Metilneri (Sumerian Literary Texts from Nippur in the Museum of the Ancient Orient at Istanbul) (1946) (0)
A Matter of Method in Sumerology (1933) (0)
RUSHTON COULBORN. The Origin of Civilized Societies. Pp. x, 200. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1959. $4.00 (1961) (0)
HTR volume 49 issue 4 Front matter (1956) (0)
American Oriental Society: An Evening of Reminiscences (1986) (0)
Enki and Ninḫursag, a Sumerian "Paradise" MythEnki and Ninhursag, a Sumerian "Paradise" Myth (1946) (0)
Mytologie starověku : Mythologies of the ancient world (Orig.) (1977) (0)
HTR volume 49 issue 1 Front matter (1956) (0)
Second Interim Report on Work in the Museum at Istanbul (1947) (0)
Sumerian literature, a general survey (1961) (0)
Writing and Decipherment: Voices in Stone . The decipherment of ancient scripts and writings. Ernst Doblhofer. Translated by Mervyn Savill. Viking, New York, 1961. xi + 327 pp. Illus. $6. (1961) (0)
Books Received (1956) (0)

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