Enheduanna biography of abraham

Over five thousand years ago, people living in a part of Mesopotamia called Sumer started to keep records with cuneiform, the oldest known system of writing. And roughly a millennium after cuneiform emerged, a priestess named Enheduanna began using this writing system in a new way.

Her unique texts are the earliest known example of first-person writing, and she may be the first known writer to claim authorship of her work.

British archaeologists rediscovered copies of her work in 1927, but it took several decades for scholars to credit Enheduanna as the author of her texts (some continue to argue she didn’t write them).

Scholars who do believe she authored these texts point to the deeply personal reflections in her writing, as well as the fact that these works were consistently attributed to her long after her death.

'The Compiler of This Tablet is Enheduanna'

Enheduanna was born in Mesopotamia (part of modern-day Iraq) in the 23rd cent