Thorkild Jacobsen

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Thorkild Jacobsen

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#582

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#809

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Archeology

#122

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#207

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Thorkild Jacobsen's Degrees

PhD Assyriology University of Copenhagen

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According to Wikipedia, Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen was a renowned Danish historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. He was one of the foremost scholars on the ancient Near East. Biography Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen received, in 1927, an M.A. from the University of Copenhagen and then came to the United States to study at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where, in 1929, he received his Ph.D.

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Thorkild Jacobsen's Published Works

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Published Works

Primitive Democracy in Ancient Mesopotamia (1943) (242)
The Treasures of Darkness : A History of Mesopotamian Religion (1976) (212)
Early Political Development in Mesopotamia (1957) (150)
Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture (1970) (95)
The Waters of Ur (1960) (80)
The Sumerian King List (1939) (80)
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (1946) (75)
The Reign of Ibbī-Suen (1953) (53)
Pre-Sargonid temples in the Diyala region (1943) (49)
The Battle between Marduk and Tiamat (1968) (47)
The Harps that Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation (1987) (42)
Sennacherib's aqueduct at Jerwan (1935) (42)
Cuneiform texts in the National Museum, Copenhagen, chiefly of economical contents (1939) (42)
The temple oval at Khafājah (1940) (27)
The Assumed Conflict between Sumerians and Semites in Early Mesopotamian History (1939) (27)
The Gimilsin Temple and the Palace of the Rulers at Tell Asmar (1940) (26)
Mythic Thought in the Ancient Near East@@@Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. (1955) (26)
The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Volume 6. H@@@The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Volume 5. G (1957) (22)
Gilgamesh and Agga (1949) (22)
The Eridu Genesis (1981) (21)
Old Babylonian Public Buildings in the Diyala Region (1990) (18)
Khorsabad, Part I: Excavations in the Palace and at a City Gate (1937) (17)
Ancient Mesopotamian Religion: The Central Concerns (1970) (15)
Sumerian Mythology: A Review Article (1946) (13)
Tell Asmar and Khafaje : the first season's work in Eshnunna, 1930/31 (1932) (12)
The Myth of Inanna and Bilulu (1953) (10)
An Old Babylonian Charm against Merḫu (1955) (9)
Excavations in the palace and at a city gate (1936) (8)
Sennacherib's Aqueduct at Jerwan. Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. XXIV (1936) (6)
12. An Ancient Mesopotamian Trial for Homicide (1970) (6)
Cursing the day (1992) (6)
Lugalbanda and Ninsuna (1989) (5)
6. Toward the Image of Tammuz (1970) (4)
Ur Excavation Texts III. Business Documents of the Third Dynasty of Ur (1953) (4)
Mesopotamian Gods and Pantheons (1970) (4)
The treatment of final vowels in early neo-Babylonian (1942) (4)
The Sumerian Verbal Core (1988) (4)
Some Sumerian City-Names (1967) (4)
The historian and the sumerian gods (1994) (4)
The Investiture and Anointing of Adapa in Heaven (1930) (3)
Ur-Nanshe's Diorite Plaque (1985) (3)
13. On the at Ur under Textile Industry Ibbi-Sîn (1970) (3)
About the Sumerian Verb (1970) (3)
Radiocarbon Dates and Their Implications in the Near and Middle Eastern Area, a Brief (1951) (3)
Unexpected Survival After Conservative Management of Cord Prolapse in Two Very Preterm Babies (1990) (3)
Philological notes on Eshnunna and its inscriptions (1934) (2)
Formative Tendencies in Sumerian Religion (1970) (2)
Lad in the Desert (1983) (2)
Notes on Selected Sayings (1959) (2)
Henri Frankfort February 24, 1897-July 16, 1954 (1955) (2)
The Gilgamesh Epic Romantic and Tragic Vision (1990) (2)
Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (1946) (2)
The Intellectual Adventure of Early Mankind: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient near East (1948) (2)
The Name Dumuzi (1985) (2)
The Oriental Institute: Thirty Years and the Present (1949) (1)
Notes on the Sumerian Genitive (1973) (1)
Sumerological studies in honor of Thorkild Jacobsen on his seventieth birthday, June 7, 1974 (1976) (1)
The Akkadian Ablative Accusative (1963) (1)
New Texts of the Third Ur Period (1938) (0)
Seton Lloyd. The Interval: a life in Near Eastern archaeology. Faringdon: Lloyd Collon, 1986. (Order from The Alden Press, Osney Mead, Oxford.) 186 pages, 29 illustrations. £8.50. paperback. (1987) (0)
New Sumerian Literary Texts (1946) (0)
Texts and Fragments (17-23) (1954) (0)
Sumerian Grammar Today@@@The Sumerian Language. An Introduction to Its History and Grammatical Structure (1988) (0)
10. The Reign of Ibbi-Suen (1970) (0)
To Benno Landsberger, on His Sixtieth Birthday (1950) (0)
American Oriental Society: Centenary of Benno Landsberger (1990) (0)
Ittallak Niāti (1960) (0)
14. The Waters of Ur (1970) (0)
Samuel Noah Kramer (1897-1990) (1989) (0)
15. About the Sumerian Verb (1970) (0)
"New Royal Inscriptions" (1929) (0)
Gilgamish in English Verse (1930) (0)
Additional Notes (1959) (1959) (0)
Books Received (1934) (0)
Parerga Sumerologica (1943) (0)
Lexical Index to Jacobsen’s Writings (1970) (0)
An Unrecognized Text of Ilu-Mutabil (1928) (0)
Back Matter (1977) (0)
Book Review:Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur. Samuel N. Kramer (1941) (0)

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