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Samuel Noah Kramer

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Also known as S. N. Kramer, Kramer, Samuel Noah

American Assyriologist (1897-1990)

Person · Open Library

Works
20

Top works

  • Cradle of Civilization (Great Ages of Man Series)
  • Cuando los dioses hacían de hombres
  • Cuando los dioses hacían de hombres
  • La historia empieza en Sumer
  • Sumerian Mythology (Torchbooks)

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Quotes

  • The Sumerologist is one of the narrowest of specialists in the highly specialized academic halls of learning, a well-nigh perfect example of the man who "knows mostest about the leastest."
  • So whenever I give a lecture, somebody from the audience gets up and says, "Dr Kramer, ... how do you know how to pronounce these words?" And my answer then is as follows: If one of the dead Sumerians that Leonard Woolley dug up at Ur, if he was miraculously resurrected and came into the room and he heard me say, [speaks Sumerian], he would say: "That man Kramer, he’s doing very well; he’s pronouncing his words and I understand them. But my goodness does he have a Jewish accent."

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