This book is a revised version of the dissertation I defended at the University of Toronto in
2016 for the obtention of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It could not have been written …

The tale of the combat between the Storm-god and the Sea that began circulating in the
early second millennium BCE was one of the most well-known ancient Near Eastern myths …

This book investigates the transmission of Sumerian literature to Syria and Anatolia (ie the
Western periphery) during the Late Bronze Age. Sumerian is the most ancient language so …

Franz Köchers standard work on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was designed to
provide copies of the texts with translation and commentary, had remained unfinished at his …

This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia
and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary …

In Early Mesopotamian Divination Literature: Its Organizational Framework and Generative
and Paradigmatic Characteristics, Abraham Winitzer provides a detailed study of the …

This chapter investigates metaphors and concepts associated with the female reproductive
body in gynecological texts from 2nd and 1st millennium BCE Mesopotamia, focusing on …

This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the
lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line …

The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great
achievements in the history of humankind-a giant endeavour to amass all known literature …

The name of the book, New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts, is not entirely truthful. Many of
the texts considered are really published here for the first time, but several others were …