DOC Harriet Tubman by Humez Jean McMahon in History

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“The Treasures of Darkness is the culmination of a lifetime’s work; an attempt to summarize and recreate the spiritual life of Ancient Mesopotamia. Jacobsen has succeeded brilliantly. . . . His vast experience shows through every page of this unique book; through the vivid; new translations resulting from years of careful research. Everyone interested in early Mesopotamia; whether specialist; student; or complete layman; should read this book. . . . It is; quite simply; authoritative; based on a vast experience of the ancient Mesopotamian mind; and very well written in the bargain.”―Brian M. Fagan; History“Professor Jacobsen is an authority on Sumerian life and society; but he is above all a philologist of rare sensibility. The Treasures of Darkness is almost entirely devoted to textual evidence; the more gritty sources of archaeological knowledge being seldom mentioned. He introduces many new translations which are much finer than previous versions. . . . Simply to read this poetry and the author’s sympathetic commentary is a pleasure and a revelation. Professor Jacobsen accepts the premise that all religion springs from man’s experience of a power not of this world; a mysterious ‘Wholly Other.’ This numinous power cannot be described in terms of worldly experience but only in allusive ‘metaphors’ that serve as a means of communication in religious teaching and thought. . . . As a literary work combining sensibility; imagination and scholarship; this book is near perfection.”―Jacquetta Hawkes; The London Sunday Times“A brilliant presentation of Mesopotamian religion from the inside; backed at every point by meticulous scholarship and persistent adherence to original texts. It will undoubtedly remain for a long time a classic in its field.”―Religious Studies Review“A fascinating book. The general reader cannot fail to admire the translated passages of Sumerian poetry with which it abounds; especially those illustrating the Dumuzi-Inanna cycle of courtship; wedding and lament for the god’s untimely death. Many of these (though not all) are new even to the specialist and will repay close study.”―B.O.R. Gurney; Times Literary Supplement