Basic Bibliography

By Eckart Frahm

• J. Assmann and Gladigow, B. , Text und Kommentar. Fink, 1995.
• P. - A. Beaulieu, “An excerpt from a menology with reverse writing”, Acta Sumerologica Japonica, vol. 17, pp. 1-14, 1995.
• J. Bilbija, “Interpreting the Interpretation Protasis-Apodosis-Strings in the Physiognomic Omen Series Šumma Alamdimmû 3.76-132”, in Studies in Ancient Near Eastern World View and Society. Presented to Marten Stol on the occasion of his 65th Birthday, R. J. van der Spek, Ed. CDL Press, 2008, pp. 19-27.
• B. Böck, Die babylonisch-assyrische Morphoskopie. Berger & Söhne, 2000.
• R. Borger, “Keilschrifttexte verschiedenen Inhalts”, in Symbolae Biblicae et Mesopotamicae Francisco Mario Theodoro de Liagre Bohl Dedicatae, M. A. Beek, Kampman, A. A. , Nijland, C. , and Ryckmans, J. , Eds. Brill, 1973, pp. 36-55.
• J. Bottéro, “Les noms de Marduk, l'écriture et la 'logique' en Mésopotamie Ancienne”, in Essays on the Ancient Near East in memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein, deJ. M. Ellis, Ed. Archon Books, 1977, pp. 5-28.
• D. Brown, Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology. Styx, 2000.
• A. Cavigneaux, Die sumerisch-akkadischen Zeichenlisten. Überlieferungsprobleme. PhD thesis, 1976.
• A. Cavigneaux, “Aux sources du Midrash: L'herméneutique babylonienne”, Aula Orientalis, vol. 5, pp. 243-255, 1987.
• M. Civil, “Medical Commentaries from Nippur”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 33, pp. 329-338, 1974.
• P. Clancier, Les bibliothèques en Babylonie dans le deuxième moitié du 1er millénaire av. J.-C. Ugarit-Verlag, 2009.
• N. de Zorzi, Divinazione e intertestualità : la serie divinatoria shumma izbu e il suo orizzonte culturale. PhD thesis, 2011.
• J. - M. Durand, “Un commentaire a TDP I, AO 17661”, Revue d'Assyriologie, vol. 73, pp. 153-170, 1979.
• W. Farber, “Vorzeichen aus der Waschschüssel: Zu den akkadischen Bade-Omina”, Orientalia Nova Series, vol. 58, pp. 86-101, 1989.
• I. L. Finkel, “On the Lugale Commentaries”, Revue d'Assyriologie, vol. 80, pp. 190-191, 1986.
• I. L. Finkel, “Adad-apla-iddina, Esagil-kin-apli, and the series SA.GIG”, in A scientific humanist: studies in memory of Abraham Sachs, E. Liechty, Ellis, MdeJ. , Gerardi, P. , and Gingerich, O. , Eds. University Museum, 1988, pp. 143-159.
• I. L. Finkel, “On an Izbu VII commentary”, in If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty, A. K. Guinan, Ellis, MdeJ. , Ferrara, A. J. , Freedman, S. M. , Rutz, M. T. , Sassmannshausen, L. , Tinney, S. , and Waters, M. W. , Eds. Brill, 2006, pp. 139-148.
• E. Frahm, “Anmerkungen zu den ālu-Kommentaren aus Uruk”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 1998/11, 1998.
• E. Frahm, “Zwischen Tradition und Neuerung: Babylonische Priestergelehrte im achämenidenzeitlichen Uruk”, in Religion und Religionskontakte im Zeitalter der Achämeniden, R. G. Kratz, Ed. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2002, pp. 74-108.
• E. Frahm, “Royal Hermeneutics: Observations on the Commentaries from Ashurbanipal's Libraries at Nineveh”, Iraq, vol. 66, pp. 45-50, 2004.
• E. Frahm, “Counter-texts, Commentaries, and Adaptations: Politically Motivated Responses to the Babylonian Epic of Creation in Mesopotamia, the Biblical World, and Elsewhere”, Orient, vol. 45, pp. 3-33, 2010.
• E. Frahm, “Reading the Tablet, the Exta, and the Body: The Hermeneutics of Cuneiform Signs in Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries and Divinatory Texts”, in Divination and interpretation of signs in the Ancient World, A. Annus, Ed. The University of Chicago, 2010, pp. 91-141.
• E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.
• E. Frahm, “Headhunter, Buecherdiebe und Wandernde Gelehrte Anmerkungen zum altorientalischen Wissenstranfer im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.”, in Wissenskultur im Alten Orient. Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, H. Neumann, Ed. Harrassowitz, 2013, pp. 15-30.
• E. Frahm, “Traditionalism and Intellectual Innovation in a Cosmopolitan World: Reflections on Babylonian Text Commentaries from the Achaemenid Period”, in Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon: Scholarly Conversations between Jews, Iranians, and Babylonians, U. Gabbay and Secunda, S. , Eds. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, pp. 317-334.
• S. M. Freedman, “BM 129092: A Commentary on Snake Omens”, in If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty, A. K. Guinan, Ellis, MdeJ. , Ferrara, A. J. , Freedman, S. M. , Rutz, M. T. , Sassmannshausen, L. , Tinney, S. , and Waters, M. W. , Eds. Brill, 2006, pp. 149-166.
• U. Gabbay, “Emesal passages cited in commentaries”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2006/81, 2006.
• U. Gabbay, “Some notes on an Izbu Commentary”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2009/53, 2009.
• U. Gabbay, “Akkadian Commentaries from Ancient Mesopotamia and Their Relation to Early Hebrew Exegesis”, Dead Sea Discoveries, vol. 19, pp. 267-312, 2012.
• U. Gabbay, “Actual Sense and Scriptural Intention: Literal Meaning and Its Terminology in Akkadian and Hebrew Commentaries”, in Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon: Scholarly Conversations between Jews, Iranians, and Babylonians, U. Gabbay and Secunda, S. , Eds. Mohr Siebeck, 2014, pp. 335-370.
• E. Gehlken, “Die Serie DIŠ Sîn ina tāmartīšu im Überblick”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2007/4, 2007.
• M. J. Geller, “Incipits and Rubrics”, in Wisdom, Gods and literature: studies in Assyriology in honour of W.G. Lambert, A. R. George and Finkel, I. L. , Eds. Eisenbrauns, 2000, pp. 225-258.
• T. Genty, “Les commentaires à TDP 3-40. Première partie”, Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes, vol. 16, pp. 1-38, 2010.
• A. R. George, “Babylonian Texts from the folios of Sidney Smith. Part Two: Prognostic and Diagnostic Omens, Tablet I”, Revue d'Assyriologie, vol. 85, pp. 137-167, 1991.
• J. - J. Glassner, “Multābiltu Commentaire 4”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2010/84, 2010.
• N. P. Heeßel, “Neue Texte zum Kapitel Šumma multābiltu der Opferschau-Serie bārûtu”, Revue d'Assyriologie, vol. 102, pp. 119-148, 2008.
• N. P. Heeßel, “Neues von Esagil-kīn-apli. Die ältere Version der physiognomischen Omenserie alamdimmû”, in Assur-Forschungen. Arbeiten aus der Forschungsstelle »Edition literarischer Keilschrifttexte aus Assur« der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, S. M. Maul and Heeßel, N. P. , Eds. Harrassowitz, 2010, pp. 139-187.
• H. Hunger, “Ein Kommentar zu Mond-Omina”, in Vom Alten Orient zum Alten Testament. Festschrift für Wolfram Freiherrn von Soden zum 85. Geburtstag am 19. Juni 1993, W. Dietrich and Loretz, O. , Eds. Butzon & Kevelaer, 1995, pp. 105-118.
• E. Jiménez, La imagen de los vientos en la literatura babilónica. PhD thesis, 2013.
• E. Jiménez, “Three colophons”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2013/92, 2013.
• E. Jiménez, “On the Commentary to the Code of Hammurapi and the God of Ordeals”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2014/84, 2014.
• U. Koch-Westenholz, “The Astrological Commentary Šumma Sîn ina tāmartīšu Tablet 1”, Res Orientales, vol. 12, pp. 149-165, 1999.
• U. Koch-Westenholz, Babylonian Liver Omens. The Chapters Manzāzu, Padānu and Pān Tākalti of the Babylonian Extispicy Series mainly from Aššurbanipal's Library. Museum Tusculanum, 2000.
• U. S. Koch, Secrets of Extispicy. The Chapter Multābiltu of the Babylonian Extispicy Series and Niṣirti bārûti Texts mainly from Aššurbanipal's Library. Ugarit-Verlag, 2005.
• U. S. Koch, “Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation”, in The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, K. Radner and Robson, E. , Eds. Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 447-469.
• J. Krecher, “Kommentare”, Reallexikon der Assyriologie, vol. 6, pp. 188-191, 1980.
• R. Labat, Commentaires assyro-babyloniens sur les présages. Imprimerie-Librairie de l’Université, 1933.
• W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature. Clarendon Press, 1960.
• W. G. Lambert, “A catalogue of texts and authors”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 16, pp. 59-77, 1962.
• W. G. Lambert, “The laws of Hammurabi in the First Millennium”, in Reflets des deux fleuves: Volume de melanges offerts a André Finet, M. Lebeau and Talon, P. , Eds. Peeters, 1989, pp. 95-98.
• W. G. Lambert, “Marduk's Address to the Demons”, in Mesopotamian Magic. Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives, T. Abusch and van der Toorn, K. , Eds. Styx, 1999, pp. 291-296.
• W. G. Lambert, “Babylonian Linguistics”, in Languages and Cultures in Contact. At the Crossroads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm. Proceedings of the 42th RAI, K. Van Lerberghe and Voet, G. , Eds. Peeters, 1999, pp. 217-231.
• W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths. Eisenbrauns, 2013.
• E. Leichty, The Omen Series Šumma Izbu. Augustin, 1970.
• E. Leichty, “Two Late Commentaries”, Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 24, pp. 78-86, 1973.
• A. Lenzi, Secrecy and the Gods Secret Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical Israel. The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2008.
• A. Livingstone, Mystical and Mythological Explanatory Works of Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. Eisenbrauns, 1986.
• S. M. Maul, “Das Wort im Worte, Orthographie und Etymologie als hermeneutische Verfahren babylonischer Gelehrter”, in Commentaries/Kommentare, G. W. Most, Ed. Göttingen: , 1999, pp. 1-18.
• G. W. Most, Commentaries - Kommentare. 1999.
• J. Nougayrol, “Deux figures oubliées (K. 2092)”, Revue d'Assyriologie, vol. 68, pp. 61-68, 1974.
• J. Oelsner, "Sie ist gefallen, sie ist gefallen, Babylon, die große Stadt". Vom Ende einer Kultur. Hirzel, 2002.
• M. Ossendrijver, “Some new results on a commentary to Enūma Anu Enlil Tablet 14”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2014/101, 2014.
• S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, Part II: Commentary and Appendices. Butzon & Bercker, 1983.
• L. E. Pearce, “Babylonian Commentaries and Intellectual Innovation”, in Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East. Papers Presented at the 43rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale, J. Prosecký, Ed. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Institute, 1998, pp. 331-338.
• F. N. H. al-Rawi and George, A. R. , “Tablets from the Sippar Library XIII: Enūma Anu Ellil XX”, Iraq, vol. 68, pp. 23-57, 2006.
• E. Reiner, “Constellation into Planet”, in Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree, C. Burnett, Hogendijk, J. P. , Plofker, K. , and Yano, M. , Eds. Brill, 2004, pp. 3-15.
• E. Reiner and Pingree, D. , Babylonian Planetary Omens. Part Three. Styx, 1998.
• E. Robson, “The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge”, in The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, K. Radner and Robson, E. , Eds. Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 557-576.
• F. Rochberg, Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination: The Lunar Eclipse Tablets of Enūma Anu Enlil. Berger & Söhne, 1988.
• M. T. Rutz, “SpTU 1 72: šumma immeru and šumma izbu in Late Babylonian Uruk”, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, vol. 2014/71, 2014.
• J. A. Scurlock and Andersen, B. R. , Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine. Ancient Sources, translations, and Modern Medical Analyses. University of Illinois Press, 2005.
• J. M. Steele, “A Commentary Text to Enūma Anu Enlil 14”, in From the Banks of the Euphrates: Studies in Honor of Alice Louise Slotsky, M. Ross, Ed. Eisenbrauns, 2008, pp. 257–266.
• W. H. van Soldt, Solar omens of Enūma Anu Enlil: Tablets 23(24)-29(30). Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1995.
• N. Veldhuis, “TIN.TIR Babylon, the Question of Canonization and the Production of Meaning”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 50, pp. 77-85, 1998.
• N. Veldhuis, “The Theory of Knowledge and the Practice of Celestial Divination”, in Divination and interpretation of signs in the Ancient World, A. Annus, Ed. The University of Chicago, 2010, pp. 77-91.
• L. Verderame, Le Tavole I-VI della serie astrologica "Enūma Anu Enlil". Di.Sc.A.M., 2002.
• J. Wee, The Practice of Diagnosis in Mesopotamian Medicine: With Editions of Commentaries on the Diagnostic Series Sa-gig. PhD thesis, 2012.
• E. F. Weidner, “Ein astrologischer Kommentar aus Uruk”, Studia Orientalia, vol. 1, pp. 347-358, 1925.
• E. F. Weidner, “Ein Kommentar zu den Schlangen-Omina”, Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 21, p. 46 and pl. ix-x, 1966.