Biblical Archaeology Review

In Orientalia 23 (1954), pp. 40–51; and 52 (1983), pp. 453–456 respectively.

Note, for example, Falkowitz’s dissertation of 1980 (p. 131), or the Recontre Assyriologique of 1984 (p. 177), or the conclusive “today, in my eighty-sixth year,” i.e., 1983 (p. 229).

For example, “more than four decades” have passed since 1930 (p. 23; compare p. 26) and “more than a quarter century” since 1948 (p. 95); Landsberger (who died in 1968) is still alive on p. 56; and the Abu Salabikh tablets (excavated in 1963 and 1965) were dug “more than a decade ago” (p. 101).

Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East … Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (American Oriental Series 65, 1984; also published as Journal of the American Oriental Society 103/1, 1983). The first Kramer Anniversary Volume appeared in 1976 as Alter Orient und Altes Testament 25. Both volumes are valuable compendia of and about cuneiform literary texts, especially in Sumerian.

Kramer, From the Poetry of Sumer (1979), p. 2. Actually, one could give a slight priority to Francois Lenormant, whose Études Accadiennes began to offer such bilingual texts already in 1873; compare Hallo, Assyriological Studies 20 (1976), p. 181 and note 4.

And it owes a great deal to Levi-Strauss, “Structural Study of Myth”; Edmund Leach, Genesis as Myth and Other Essays (London: Grossman Publishers, 1969); Leach and D. Alan Aycock, Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983).

For the classic definition of structuralism, see Claude Levi-Strauss, “The Structural Study of Myth,” in Structural Anthropology, in Myth a Symposium, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok (Bloomington and London: Indiana Univ. Press, 1970), pp. 81–106.