Bible Review

Berakhot 57b.

Midrash Tehillim to Psalms [18:1], ed. Solomon Buber, (1891; repr. 1966), p. 135.

On the assumption that one pre-Exilic kor was equivalent to 20 U.S. bushels. Others equate it rather with 6.25 U.S. bushels; see R.B.Y. Scott, “Weights and Measures of the Bible,” Biblical Archaeologist 22 (1959), pp. 22–40, esp. p. 31.

See James. B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd ed. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), pp. 558–560: “The Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II,” esp. p. 560. See previously Max E.L. Mallowan, Nimrud and Its Remains (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1966), vol. 1, chap. 4: “Discovery of a Stela,” esp. pp. 69f.

Adapted from Stephanie Dalley, Mari and Karana: Two Old Babylonian Cities (London/New York: Longman, 1984), pp. 78–80.

See Bottéro, “Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia,” p. 43.

See Armas Salonen, Vögel und Vogelfang im alten Mesopotamien (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1973), p. 209; K.R. Maxwell-Hyslop, “The Goddess Nansûe: An Attempt to Identify Her Representation,” Iraq 54 (1992) p. 81, suggests “a kind of goose.”

See Bottéro, “Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia,” p. 42.

See Hallo, “Biblical Abominations and Sumerian Taboos,” Jewish Quarterly Review 76 (1985) pp. 21–40, esp. pp. 32f.

Cited by Jack M. Sasson at the end of his translation of another preliminary treatment of the recipes by Bottéro, which appeared as “The Culinary Tablets at Yale” in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 107 (1987), pp. 11–19.