Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 353 p)
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0231132603
Serie:
Gender, theory, and religion
Inhalt:
Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, along with other ambiguous erotic and sexual language found in the Gilgamesh epic and the biblical David story, have become the object of numerous and competing scholarly inquiries into the sexual nature of the heroes' relationships. Susan Ackerman's innovative work carefully examines the stories' sexual
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-326) and indexes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231132602
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe When Heroes Love : The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David
Sprache:
Englisch
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