Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi,

Quoting "Sarah J. Blake" <sarah AT growingstrong.org>:

> Very creative. Thanks for the amusement.

You remain unconvinced? May I suggest a selection of light reading  
that will help you understand the basics?


^ Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford University Press,  
1987), p. 329.
^ such as Thorkild Jacobsen in "The Battle between Marduk and Tiamat",  
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 88.1 (January-March 1968),  
pp 104-108.
^ a b Jacobsen 1968:105.
^ Burkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern  
Influences on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age 1993, p 92f.
^ Palmer, Abram Smythe .Babylonian influence on the Bible and popular  
beliefs : "T?hôm and Tiâmat", "Hades and Satan" : a comparative study  
of Genesis I. 2 (London, 1897)
^ Steinkeller, Piotr. "On Rulers, Priests and Sacred Marriage: tracing  
the evolution of early Sumerian kingship" in Wanatabe, K. (ed.),  
Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East (Heidelberg 1999)  
pp.103-38
^ Crawford, Harriet E. W. (1998), Dilmun and its Gulf Neighbours  
(Cambridge University Press).
^ Crawford, Harriet; Killick, Robert and Moon, Jane, eds.. (1997). The  
Dilmun Temple at Saar: Bahrain and Its Archaeological Inheritance  
(Saar Excavation Reports / London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition:  
Kegan Paul)
^ Yahuda, A., The Language of the Pentateuch in its Relation to  
Egyptian (Oxford, 1933)
^ Speiser, "An Intrusive Hurro-Hittite Myth", Journal of the American  
Oriental Society 62.2 (June 1942:98-102) p. 100.
^ Expressed, for example, in E. O. James, The Worship of the Skygod: A  
Comparative Study in Semitic and Indo-European Religion (London:  
University of London, Jordan Lectures in Comparative religion)  
1963:24, 27f.
^ As by W. G. Lambert, reviewing James 1963 in Bulletin of the School  
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 27.1 (1964),  
pp. 157-158.

James Christian


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