رثاء سومر وأور Lament for Sumer and Ur
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رثاء سومر وأوريم أو رثاء سومر وأور هي قصيدة وواحدة من خمس "مراثي مدن" رافدية—ترانيم جنائزية معروفة للمدن الخربة بصوت الإلهات الشفيعات لتلك المدن.
مراثي المدن الأخرى هي:
- The Lament for Ur
- The Lament for Nippur[1]
- The Lament for Eridu
- The Lament for Uruk[2]
In 2004 BCE, during the last year of King Ibbi-Sin's reign, Ur fell to an Elamite army leading by king Kindattu of Shimashki.[3] The Sumerians decided that such a catastrophic event could only be explained through divine intervention and wrote in the lament that the gods, "An, Enlil, Enki and Ninmah decided [Ur's] fate"[4]
The literary works of the Sumerians were widely translated (e.g., by the Hittites, Hurrians and Canaanites). Sumeria historian Samuel Noah Kramer wrote that later Greek as well as Hebrew texts "were profoundly influenced by them."[5] Contemporary scholars have drawn parallels between the lament and passages from the bible (e.g., "the Lord departed from his temple and stood on the mountain east of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 10:18-19)."[6]
References
- ^ Tinney, Steve. The Nippur lament: royal rhetoric and divine legitimation in the reign of Išme-Dagan of Isin (1953-1935 BC). University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1996
- ^ Green, M. W. “The Uruk Lament.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 104, no. 2, 1984, pp. 253–79. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/602171
- ^ The lamentation over the destruction of Sumer and Ur, Piotr Michalowski, 1989, p. 1
- ^ Ancient Near Eastern Themes in Biblical Theology, By Jeffrey Jay Niehaus, 2008, p. 117
- ^ The Sumerians: Their history, culture and character, Samuel Noah Kramer, p. 196
- ^ Ancient Near Eastern Themes in Biblical Theology, By Jeffrey Jay Niehaus, 2008, 118