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The Flood story: bibliography

Print sources used

Jacobsen, Thorkild, "The Eridu Genesis", Journal of Biblical Literature 100 (1981), 513-529: composite text, translation, commentary

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Harps that Once .... Sumerian Poetry in Translation. Yale University Press: New Haven/London 1987, 145-150: translation, commentary

Kramer, Samuel Noah, "The Sumerian Deluge Myth. Reviewed and Revised", Anatolian Studies 33 (1983), 115-121 translation, commentary

Lambert, W.G., and Millard, A.R., Atra-Hasis: the Babylonian Story of the Flood. Clarendon Press: Oxford 1969, 138-145: translation, commentary, score transliteration by M. Civil

Pettinato, Giovanni, Das altorientalische Menschenbild und die sumerischen und akkadischen Schöpfungsmythen. Winter: Heidelberg 1971: translation, commentary, composite text
ll. 37-50; 84-100

Römer, Willem H.Ph., and Edzard, Dietz Otto, (Kaiser, Otto, ed.), Mythen und Epen, 1 (Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments III, 3), Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn: Gütersloh 1993, 448-458: translation, commentary (by Römer)

Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:

• Krecher, Joachim and Jagersma, B. (LIT2.TXT, 1996: composite text, translation)

Cuneiform sources

• CBS 10673: Nippur, lines 37-50, 84-100, 135-162, 201-217, 251-261. Civil 1969: 138 suggests that bilingual CT 46, 5 may belong to missing part of col iii; STVC 87 B may also belong -- based only on similar content. Kramer 1983 follows Civil 1969's numbering; TUAT follows Jacobsen 19981's.

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