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The Latin text appears in Analecta Bollandiana 8 (1889), pp. 123ff. It was published in French by Felix-Marie Abel in “La sépulture de saint Jacques le Mineur,” Revue Biblique 16 (1919), pp. 485–487.

E.A. Speiser, Genesis (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), p. 55. See also the superb essay of William L. Moran, “A Mesopotamian Myth and Its Biblical Transformation,” in Moran, The Most Magic Word: Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature, ed. Ronald S. Hendel (Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association, 2002), pp. 59–74.

See the recent translations of Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); and Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh (New York: Penguin, 2000).

Richard E. Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? (New York: Harper & Row, 1987), pp. 53–60.

William Ryan and Walter Pitman, Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).

On the Harrowing of Hell in English literature, see George L. Scheper, “Harrowing of Hell,” in A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, ed. David Lyle Jeffrey (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), pp. 332–334.

Martin Luther, Formula of Concord, epit. ix, in Werke (Weimar, 1910), 37:62–67.

Martin Luther, “First Lectures on the Psalms (Psalm 86)” in Luther’s Works II (Saint Louis: Concordia, 1976), p. 175.

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans. H. Beveridge (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1953), 2.16.440–443.

Catechismus Romanus 1.6.1.