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Alster, Bendt
Name
Alster, Bendt
Dates
26 July 1946 - 30 April 1912
Birthplace
Denmark
Specialization
Sumerology, Assyriology
Major works
Dumuzi's dream. Aspects of oral poetry in a Sumerian myth. Mesopotamia. Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology 1. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag: 1972.
Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World's Earliest Proverb Collections. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press: 1997.
Wisdom of Ancient Sumer. Bethesda, Md. : CDL Press: 2005.
Remarks
Bendt Alster studied Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen from 1965 to 1972 and received the doctoral degree in 1975. He spent one year in Rome at the Biblical Institute (1968-69), and another (1970-71) at Harvard University studying with Thorkild Jacobsen. Alster was visiting scholar at the University Museum, Philadelphia, in 1973, 1988-89, 1992 and again in 1993-94, as well as visiting scholar at the British Expedition to Iraq, Baghdad in 1990, and visiting scholar at the Babylonian Collection, Yale University, 1992. Bendt Alster was external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen from 1978 until 2005.
