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Brinkman, Prelude, p. 123.

On the evidence for Uruk, see Bill T. Arnold, “Babylonian Letters from the Kuyunjik Collection: Seventh Century Uruk in Light of New Epistolary Evidence,” (Ph.D. diss., Hebrew Union College, 1985).

On the mistaken identity of Adad-apla-iddina, a ruler of Babylonia as an Aramean, see C. B. F. Walker, “Babylonian Chronicle 25: A Chronicle of the Kassite and Isin II Dynasties,” in G. van Driel, ed. Zikir šumim: Assyriological Studies Presented to F. R. Kraus on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (Leiden, 1982), pp. 414–415.

Brinkman, A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia (Biblical Institute Press, 1968) pp. 266–267, 273–275.

Brinkman, “Babylonia under the Assyrian Empire, 745–627 B.C.” p. 226.

Jonas Greenfield, “Babylonian-Aramaic Relationship,” in H.J. Nissen and J. Renger, eds., Mesopotamien und seine Nachbarn: Politische und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen im Alten Vorderasien vom 4. bis 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 1 (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1982), pp. 471–482.

J.A. Brinkman, Prelude to Empire: Babylonian Society and Politics, 747–626 B.C. Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund, 7; (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1984); Manfried Dietrich, Die Aramäer Südbabyloniens in der Sargonidenzeit (700–648) AOAT 7 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Butzon and Bercker Kevelaer, 1970); and Grant Frame, Babylonia 689–627 B.C.: A Political History (Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut, 1992).

The best approach will be “contextual” rather than simply “comparative,” in that our analysis should consider similarities as well as differences. William W. Hallo, “Biblical History in Its Near Eastern Setting: The Contextual Approach,” in C.D. Evans, W. W. Hallo, and J. B. White, eds., Scripture in Context: Essays on the Comparative Method, Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series 34 (Pittsburgh: Pickwick, 1980), pp. 1–26.

According to her director, Mark Schuler, the tomb was opened subsequent to burial for the extraction of relics and the remaining bones were gathered under a hole in the lid of the sarcophagus through which libations were poured onto the bones, which gives the impression that the woman was continually worshiped.