The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise

Name: The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise
Author: Charles Gordon Cumming

by Charles Gordon Cumming

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2015-01-03

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Bible. Psalms -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.Hymns, Akkadian -- History and criticism Comparative literature -- Hebrew and Assyro-Babylonian Comparative literature -- Assyro-Babylonian and Hebrew

About the author

Charles Gordon Cumming

b. 1885

Best known for a thoughtful study comparing Hebrew psalms with Assyrian hymns, this early 20th-century scholar brought ancient religious poetry into lively conversation. Very little biographical information is easy to confirm, which makes the surviving work itself the clearest introduction to his mind and interests.

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