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.