RT Article
T1 THE REPATRIATION OF GILGAMESH DREAM TABLET: REBUILDING THE IRAQI RELIGIOUS LEGACY
JF European journal for philosophy of religion
VO 15
IS 2
SP 1
OP 14
A1 Dabis, Hasan Khalid
A1 Altememy, Haady Abdilnibi
A1 Hameed, Mohamed
A1 Kamal, Hawraa Neima
A1 Ali, Ali Dawod
A1 Al-Zerjawi, Saleem
A1 Ali, Hasan Mohammed
A1 Fadhil, Ali Mawlood
LA English
PB University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1866212516
AB The Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3600-year 12-tablet collection, was looted from an Iraqi museum during the 1991 Gulf War, and fraudulently imported into the United States. In September, 2021, UNESCO facilitated its repatriation to Iraq, which is seen as an occasion to consolidate Iraq’s efforts to rebuild its legacy, since the Epic of Gilgamesh is of immense cultural, historical and religious value for Iraq The current study examines the Epic of Gilgamesh in the light of the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian traditions. This collection of tablets carries a great legacy of the contemporary Babylonian and Mesopotamian beliefs and socio-religious values, also evident in the use of cuneiform and clay tablets, being ancient forms of writings. The study made use of content analysis and historical and analytical approaches to retrieve data through a documentation research design. The study found that the Epic of Gilgamesh is not only a work of religious literature, but a treatise on civilization. On one hand it narrates the stories engrained in the Mesopotamian mythology, such as those of Ninsun, Shamash and Utnapishtim; on the other hand, owing to its content, literary style and tone, characterization and symbolism, this study would be a great contribution to relive the story of Gilgamesh from current literary, and socio-religious perspective and provide a comprehensive account of the legacy and inheritance that it brings in for the modern generation.
K1 Assyrian
K1 Babylonian
K1 Cuneiform
K1 Epic
K1 Mesopotamian
K1 Mythology
K1 Tablets
DO 10.24204/ejpr.2021.4054