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Do we have any Akkadian experts here?
 
In John Huehnergard's _A Grammar of Akkadian_, p. 187, he translates  "awilam 
$a kima $uati" as "'a man of equal rank (lit., 'a man who is/was like  him')".
 
1.  Is this translation of kima generally accepted by Akkadian  scholars, and 
is this use common in Akkadian?
 
2.  If we apply this to the (in)famous W)HBT LR)K KMWK we'ahabta  lere`ekha 
kamokha, would the correct translation be "Love your fellow as your  equal" 
or 
"Love your fellow of equal rank"?
 
Hayyim