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Shaffer, “New light on the ‘three-ply cord,’ ” Eretz-Israel 9 (1969), pp. 159f. (in Hebrew; English summary pp. 138f.)

Aaron Shaffer, “The Mesopotamian Background of Lamentations [sic!] 4:9–12, ” Eretz-Israel 8 (1967), pp. 246–250 (in Hebrew; English summary p. 75*).

Hallo, “Antediluvian Cities,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 23 (1970), pp. 57–67.

J. J. A Van Dijk, “La découverte de la culture littéraire sumérienne et sa signification pour l’histoire de l’antiquité orientale,” Orientalia et Biblica Lovaniensia 1 (1957), pp. 5–28, esp. pp. 15–18.

Compare this to the fable of the trees that wanted a king to reign over them and had to settle for the thornbush (Judges 9:8–15).

See, most recently, B. Alster and H. Vanstiphout, “Lahar and Ashnan: Presentation and Analysis of a Sumerian Disputation,” Acta Sumerologica 9 (1987), pp. 1–43.

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

William W. Hallo, “The Lame and the Halt,” Eretz-Israel 9 (1969), pp. 66–70.

This saying has been compared to a proverb much cited by a 14th-century ruler of Byblos: “My field is likened to a woman without a husband, because is it not ploughed”; see James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1956), p. 426.

See M. Civil, “Sumerian Riddles: A Corpus,” Aula Orientalis 5 (1987), pp. 17–37.