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Nome padrão
Jacobsen, Thorkild
Nome de batismo
Jacobsen, Thorkild Peter Rudolph
Data de nascimento
1904-06-07
Data de falecimento
1993-05-02
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Denmark
Local de nascimento
Copenhagen, Denmark
Local de falecimento
Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Locais de residência
Bradford, New Hampshire, USA
Educação
University of Copenhagen
University of Chicago
Ocupação
archaeologist
ancient historian
assyriologist
translator
professor
college dean
Relacionamentos
Frankfort, Henri (colleague)
Organizações
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
American Oriental Society (president)
Harvard University
Premiações
Guggenheim Fellowship (Near Eastern Studies, 1968)
Pequena biografia
Thorkild Jacobsen received his master's degree from the University of Copenhagen and then came to the USA to study at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD. He became a field Assyriologist for the Institute's Iraq Expedition, which lasted from 1929 to 1937. He managed the excavation of the 2,600-year-old Sennacherib aqueduct at Jerwan, which at that time was the world's oldest-known aqueduct. He was considered an expert translator of cuneiform compositions and a brilliant interpreter of Sumerian and Akkadian cultures. In 1946, he was named director of the Institute. He also served as dean of the Humanities Division (1948–1951), as an editor of the Assyrian Dictionary (1955–1959), and as professor of Social Institutions (1946–1962). In 1962, Prof. Jacobsen took up an appointment as professor of Assyriology at Harvard University, where he remained until his retirement in 1974. He then served as a visiting professor at UCLA, where he helped develop a strong Assyriology program. He served as president of the American Oriental Society.

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SueJBeard | outras 3 resenhas | Feb 14, 2023 |
Fascinating if dense. If you're curious about ancient religions definitely worth a look.
 
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GaylaBassham | outras 2 resenhas | May 27, 2018 |
Unlike Kramer's "The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character", this book is a slow burner and a more difficult read, demanding more patience at least in the first half of the book. No matter how fascinating the history of ancient Sumer is, and no matter how much Jacobsen tried to compose this book for the non-specialist, we're still faced with a demanding text dedicated to only a subtopic of Sumer from one of the top-notch scholars in the field.

After the warning above, I have to say that I found the last few chapters much more motivating and exciting. Starting from the "Rise of Personal Religion", continuing with "Enûma Elish", and reaching its peak with the most famous Gilgamesh epic, Jacobsen's analysis is a tour de force of connecting today's understanding with the world view of 4000 years ago, as well as their connections to other cultures such as ancient Greek literature, Judaism, and Christianity.

It is not easy to take such ancient material, values and ideas barely visible from the traces on clay tablets, and bring them to life in such a lively manner, providing the reader with enough context to support the mind opening analyses. The author succeeded in this, and I can recommend this book after Kramer's book, if only for its second part.
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EmreSevinc | outras 2 resenhas | May 7, 2017 |

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Membros
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ISBNs
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