Learning to Pray in a Dead Language: Education and Invocation in Ancient Sumerian

by Joshua Bowen

The connection between prayer and schools has been a hot-button issue in the United States since their official separation in 1962. Many are in favor of restoring prayer in schools, others, however, find the idea inappropriate. In the ancient world there was no such distinction between the secular and the sacred, between the schoolhouse and the sanctuary. In ancient Iraq, in the early second millennium BCE - a time known as the Old Babylonian period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1734358653
• ISBN13: 9781734358650
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Digital Hammurabi Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"