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Wind And Smoke: Giving Up The Ghost Of Enkidu, Comprehending Enkidu’s Ghosts

Cooper, Jerrold S.·2009·Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions
DOI 10.1163/ej.9789004171527.i-344.12
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is the best known work of literature from ancient Iraq, and rightly so. Its 3,000 or so lines relate the story of the legendary king of Uruk and his friendship and adventures with his close companion Enkidu, whose subsequent death initiated the grieving Gilgameshs vain quest for immortality. The Akkadian epic is loosely based on a group of earlier Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh, but includes as well much that is not known from the Sumerian tradition. The ancients were very concerned about the ghost that was released after death. The ghost of Sumerian and Akkadian sources, then, seems to be something akin to an immortal soul, an integral part of the living person that takes on an independent role only after death. Keywords: Akkadian sources; enkidu; Gilgamesh; Sumerian tradition

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Authors
Cooper, J. S.
Corresponding author
Cooper, Jerrold S.
Venue
Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions
Publisher
BRILL
Published
2009-01-01
Pages
23-32
DOI
10.1163/ej.9789004171527.i-344.12
OpenAlex
W828250228
Cited by
8
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0
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2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1
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5.27
Type
book chapter
Language
en
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closed
Locations
BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient Near East History
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
Keywords
Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, ghosts, afterlife, immortality of the soul, Akkadian literature, death and mourning, immortality, Uruk

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