The World's Oldest Literature —— Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres

----- 世界最古老的文学作品：闪族纯文学

ISBN: 9789004173811 出版年：2009 页码：800 William W Hallo Brill

To propogate the invention of writing, the Sumerians established scribal schools which preserved and transmitted the accumulated wisdom of the past, usually in poetic form. The literature thus created has been studied by the author for half a century. His conclusions, often also important for biblicists, are here assembled in one volume for the first time.