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So with Menahem Haran, Journal of Semitic Studies 36 (1985), pp. 3f. My own count is 23,199.

For a convenient summary, see D. O. Edzard, “Literatur,” in Reallexikon der Assyriologie, vol. 7, ed. Edzard (Berlin: Walter DeGruyter, 1987), pp. 35–48. Edzard’s figures add up to 19,000 lines, but exclude some large categories such as liturgical hymns, royal hymns, litanies, Dumuzi laments, individual players, literary letters, proverbs and incantations.

See Kramer, In the World of Sumer: An Autobiography (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1986), and my review in Books in Brief, BR 14:01.

Samuel Noah Kramer, History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-nine Firsts in Man’s Recorded History (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1981).

Or Arabian Gulf, depending on the point of view. A recent New York Times editorial (September 20, 1987) suggested that, to avoid offense to either side in the current hostilities, it should be renamed the Sumerian Gulf.

Conrad L’Heureux, In and Out of Paradise (New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1983), pp. 76–79.

(Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1984).

“The Myth Semantics of Genesis 2:4b–3:24, ” Semeia 18 (1980), p. 48.

“Myth and its Limits in Genesis 2:4b–3:24, ” in The Sense of Biblical Narrative: Structural Analyses in the Hebrew Bible 2 (Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1986), pp. 17–43.

“Levi-Strauss in the Garden of Eden: An Examination of Some Recent Developments in the Analysis of Myth,” Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, series 11, vol 23/4 (1961), pp. 386–96. A revised version has been reprinted in Genesis as Myth and Other Essays (Suffolk, England: Richard Clay, 1971), pp. 7–23.