On-Going Collection of Bibliography
Bibliography will be listed here in an on-going manner as texts are added to the site.
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Falkenstein, Adam and Wolfram von Soden. 1953. Sumerische und akkadische Hymnen und Gebete. Die Bibliothek der Alten Welt. Stuttgart: Artemis-Verlag Zürich.
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Groneberg, Brigitte. 1987. Syntax, Morphologie und Stil der jungbabylonischen Hymnischen Literatur. 2 Vols. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Groneberg, Brigitte. 1997. Lob der Ištar: Gebet und Ritual an die altbabylonische Venusgöttin, Tanatti Ištar. CM 8. Groningen: Styx Publications.
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Lambert, W. G. 1959. “The Sultantepe Tablets: A Review Article.” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale 53.3: 119–138.
Lambert, W. G. 1960. Babylonian Wisdom Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1996.
Lambert, W. G. 1980. “New Fragments of Babylonian Epics.” AfO 27: 71-82.
Lambert, W. G. 1982. “The Hymn to the Queen of Nippur.” In Zikir Šumim: Assyriological Studies Presented to F. R. Kraus on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, edited by G. van Driel et al, 173–218. Leiden: NINO.
Lambert, W. G. 1987. “A Further Attempt at the Babylonian ‘Man and His God.’” In Language, Literature, and History: Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner, edited by Francesca Rochberg-Halton, 187–202. American Oriental Series 67. New Haven: American Oriental Society.
Lambert, W. G. 1989. “A Babylonian Prayer to Anūna.” Pages 321-336 in DUMU-E₂-DUB-BA-A: Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg. Edited by H. Behrens, D. Loding, and M. Roth. Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum.
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Lenzi, Alan. 2015. “An Alternate Ending to an Akkadian Letter-Prayer to Amurrum (AbB 12, no. 99).” Nouvelles Assyriologique Brèves et Utilitaires, 2015.4, #96.
Lenzi, Alan. 2019. “Narrating for Nabû: Power and Persuasion in an Assyrian Prayer to the Scribal God.” State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 25: 11-45.
Lenzi, Alan. 2023. Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 300. Leuven: Peeters. (Open-access version: https://www.peeters-leuven.be/pdf/9789042950979.pdf).
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Myhrman, David W. 1911. Babylonian Hymns and Prayers. Publications of the Babylonian Section 1/1. Philadelphia: The University Museum.
Nougayrol, Jean. 1952. “Une Version Ancienne du ‘Juste Souffrant’.” Revue Biblique 59: 239-250 with pls. VII-VIII.
Novotny, Jamie. 2014. Selected Royal Inscriptions of Assurbanipal: L3, L4, LET, Prism I, Prism T, and Related Texts. SAACT 10. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.
Novotny, Jamie and Joshua Jeffers. 2022. The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2. RINAP 5/2. University Park: Eisenbrauns.
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Pomponio, Francesco. 1978. Nabû: Il culto e la figura di un dio del Pantheon babilonese ed assiro. Studi Semitici 51. Rome: Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente.
Reiner, Erica. 1958. Šurpu: A Collection of Sumerian and Akkadian Incantations. Archiv für Orientforschung Beiheft 11. Graz: Im Selbstverlage des Herausgebers.
Russell, John Malcolm. 1999. The Writing on the Wall: Studies in the Architectural Context of Late Assyrian Palace Inscriptions. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
Sanders, Seth L. 2009. “The First Tour of Hell: From Neo-Assyrian Propaganda to Early Jewish Revelation.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 9: 151–69.
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Stol, Marten. 1981. Letters from Yale. AbB 9. Leiden: Brill.
Streck, Maximillian. 1916. Assurbanipal und die letzten assyrischen Könige bis zum Untergange Nineveh’s. VAB VII/2. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung.
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Tallqvist, Knut. 1938. Akkadische Götterepitheta: mit einem Götterverzeichnis und einer Liste der prädikativen Elemente der sumerischen Götternamen. Studia Orientalia VII. Helsingforsiae: Societas Orientalis Fennica.
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von Soden, Wolfram. 1957. “Zu einigen altbabylonischen Dichtungen.” Or n.s. 26: 306-320.
von Soden, Wolfram. 1965. “Das Fragen nach der Gerechtigkeit Gottes im Alten Orient.” MDOG 96: 41-59.
von Soden, Wolfram. 1971. “Der große Hymnus an Nabû.” ZA 61: 44-71.
von Soden, Wolfram. 1990. “Weisheitstexte in akkadischer Sprache.” In Weisheitstexte I, edited by Willem H. Ph. Römer und Wolfram von Soden, 110-157. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments; III. Weisheitstexte, Mythen und Epen. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.
von Soden, Wolfram. 1991. “Review of: State Archives of Assyria, Volume II: Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths by Simo Parpola, Kazuko Watanabe; State Archives of Assyria, Volume III: Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea by Alasdair Livingstone.” Die Welt des Orients 22: 188–195.
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Zisa, Gioele. “Sofferenza, Malessere e Disgrazia: Metafore del Dolore e Senso del Male nell’Opera Paleo-Babilonese ‘Un Uomo e il suo Dio’: Un Approccio Interdisciplinare.” Historiae 9 (2012): 1–30.