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Lambert believes that the Assyrian version did not consist of an entire new edition, and that the switch of names reflects only incomplete reworking. See Lambert, “The Assyrian Recension of Enūma Eliš,” in Assyrien im Wandel der Zeiten, eds. H. Waetzold and H. Hauptmann, Heidelberger Studien zum alten Orient 6 (Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1997), pp. 77-80.

A. Livingstone, Court and Literary Miscellanea, pp. 95-98 no. 38.

A. Livingstone, Court and Literary Miscellanea, State Archives of Assyria 3 (Helsinki: Helsinki Univ. Press, 1989), pp. 99-102 no. 39.

K. Oberhuber, “Eine Hymne an Nippur (UET VI 118),” Archív Orientální 35 (1967), pp. 262-270.

Ze’ev Yeivin, “A Silver Cup from Tomb 204a at ‘Ain-Samiya,” Israel Exploration Journal 21 (1971), pp. 78-81; Yigael Yadin, “A Note on the Scenes Depicted on the ‘Ain-Samiya Cup,” Israel Exploration Journal 21 (1971), pp. 82-85.

Lambert, “Ninurta Mythology in the Babylonian Epic of Creation,” in Keilschriftliche Literaturen, Ausgewählte Vorträge der XXXII. RAI, Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient 6 (Berlin: D. Reimer, 1986), pp. 55-60.

Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989), pp. 203–227; B. Foster, Before the Muses 1 (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1996), pp. 461–485; A. Annus, The Standard Babylonian Epic of Anzu, State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts III (Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001).

Jacobsen, Treasures of Darkness, p. 166; Guo Honggeng, “The Mysterious Four-faced Statue (OIM A719),” Journal of Ancient Civilizations 16 (2001), pp. 87-92.

For a synthetic reading of the composition see Thorkild Jacobsen, The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1976), pp. 165-192; H.L.J. Vanstiphout, “Enuma Elish as a Systematic Creed: An Essay,” Orientalia Lovaninesia Periodica 23 (1992), pp. 37-61. For an attempt at higher literary criticism, see A. Leo Oppenheim, “Mesopotamian Mythology I,” Orientalia n.s. 16 (1974), pp. 207–238.