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Preface
Introduction: William Hallo and Assyriological, Biblical and
Jewish Studies
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PROGRAMMATIGS
i. New Viewpoints on Cuneiform Literature - 1962
2. The Cultic Setting of Sumerian Poetry - 1970
3. Problems in Sumerian Hermeneutics - 1973
4. Toward A History of Sumerian Literature - 1975
5. Assyriology and the Canon - 1990
6. Sumerian Religion - 1993
7. The Birth of Rhetoric - 2004
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CATALOGUES AND OTHER SGHOLIA
1. O n the Antiquity of Sumerian Literature - 1963
2. Another Sumerian Literary Catalogue? - 1975
3. Haplographic Marginalia - 1977
4. Old Babylonian HAR-ra - 1982
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ROYAL AND DIVINE HYMNS
1. Royal Hymns and Mesopotamian Unity - 1963
2. The Coronation of Ur-Nammu - 1966
3. New Hymns to the Kings of Isin - 1966
4. The Birth of Kings-1987
5. Nippur Originals - 1989
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PART IV
LETTER-PRAYERS
i. Individual Prayer in Sumerian: The Continuity of a Tradition
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2. Letters, Prayers, and Letter-Prayers - 1981
3. Lamentations and Prayers in Sumer and Akkad - 1995
4. Two Letter-Prayers To Amurru - 1998
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PART v
ROYAL GORRESPONDENCE
1. The Royal Correspondence of Larsa: I. A Sumerian Prototype
for the Prayer of Hezekiah? - 1976
2. The Royal Correspondence of Larsa: II. The Appeal to Utu 1982
3. The Royal Correspondence of Larsa: III. The Princess and the
Plea - 1991
4. A Sumerian Apocryphon? The Royal Correspondence of Ur
Reconsidered - 2006
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HISTORIOGRAPHY
1. Beginning and End ofthe Sumerian King List in the Nippur
Recension - 1963
2. Sumerian Historiography - 1983
3. New Directions in Historiography (Mesopotamia and Israel) 1998
4. Polymnia and Clio - 2001
5. Sumerian History in Pictures: A New Look at the "Stele ofthe
Flying Angeis" - 2005
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PART VII
MYTHS AND EPIGS
1. Lugalbanda Excavated - 1983
2. T h e Origins of the Sacrificial Cult: New Evidence from
Mesopotamia and Israel - 1987
3. Disturbing the Dead - 1993
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4. Enki and the Theology of Eridu - 1996
5. Urban Origins in Cuneiform and Biblical Sources (Founding
Myths of Cities in the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia and
Israel) - 2001
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PART VIII
PROVERBS
1. The Lame and the Halt - 1969
2. Nungal In The Egal: An Introduction To Colloquial
Sumerian? - 1979
3. Biblical Abominations and Sumerian Taboos - 1985
4. Proverbs Quoted in Epic - 1990
5. Proverbs: An Ancient Tradition in the Middle East - 2004
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PART IX
INGANTATIONS
1. Back to the Big House: Colloquial Sumerian,
Continued - 1985
2. More Incantations and Rituals from the Yale Babylonian
Collection - 1999
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PART x
SUMERIAN LITERATURE AND THE BIBLE
1. Sumerian Literature. Background to the Bible - 1988
2. Compare and Contrast: The Contextual Approach to Bibliocal
Literature - 1990
3. The Concept of Canonicity in Cuneiform and Biblical
Literature: A Comparative Appraisal - 1991
4. Sumerian Literature - 1992
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INDEXES
Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Classical Texts
Biblical and Rabbinical Texts
Subjects
Personal Names
Divine Names
Geographie Names, Ethnica, and Names of Sanctuaries
Akkadian and Sumerian Words
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