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When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (Gender, Theory, and Religion)
When Heroes Love The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David - Gender, Theory, and Religion
Author: Susan Ackerman
Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, along with other ambiguous erotic and sexual languag...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231132602
ISBN-10: 0231132603
Publication Date: 4/22/2005
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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