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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: "Sarah J. Blake" <sarah AT growingstrong.org>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] In teh beginning
  • Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 10:55:56 +0100

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.

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