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Access to religious knowledge in ancient Babylonia (2021)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2021). Access to religious knowledge in ancient Babylonia. In C. Hezser, & D. Edelman (Eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity (20-35). Equinox. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.37990

This paper will consider what constituted religious knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia and examine the means by which it was transmitted there. It will examine whether ordinary people had any access to state-sponsored religion and religious knowledge a... Read More about Access to religious knowledge in ancient Babylonia.

Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two (2021)
Book
George, A., & Taniguchi, J. (Eds.). (2021). Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two. Eisenbrauns. https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv1q8tfqr

This book publishes 323 handcopies of cuneiform tablets found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert (1926-2011), one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Prepared by A. R. George and Junko Taniguchi, it completes a two-part edit... Read More about Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two.

Berossus and Babylonian cosmogony (2021)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2021). Berossus and Babylonian cosmogony. In A. Kelly, & C. Metcalf (Eds.), Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology (185-198). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108648028

This chapter offers insights into a long-term research project that seeks to distinguish between myths and their various manifestations in literary sources, and thus approaches Mesopotamian mythology as a body of sacred, oral stories that lie in the... Read More about Berossus and Babylonian cosmogony.

Layard of Nineveh and the tablets of Nineveh (2020)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2020). Layard of Nineveh and the tablets of Nineveh. In S. Ermidoro, & C. Riva (Eds.), Rethinking Layard 1817-2017 (3-24). Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti

Gilgamesh dreams of Enkidu: An Old Babylonian tablet of Gilgamesh in the Suleimaniyah Museum (2019)
Journal Article
George, A., & Al-Rawi, F. N. H. (2019). Gilgamesh dreams of Enkidu: An Old Babylonian tablet of Gilgamesh in the Suleimaniyah Museum. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 113, 131-138. https://doi.org/10.3917/assy.113.0131

This article presents an Old Babylonian fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh now in the Suleimaniyah Museum. The passage of text preserved on it describes how Gilgamesh dreams of the coming of the wild man Enkidu. It has many points in common with other... Read More about Gilgamesh dreams of Enkidu: An Old Babylonian tablet of Gilgamesh in the Suleimaniyah Museum.

Babylonian documents from North Mesopotamia (2017)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2017). Babylonian documents from North Mesopotamia. In A. George, T. Hertel, J. Llop-Raduà, K. Radner, & W. H. van Soldt (Eds.), Assyrian Archival Texts in the Schøyen Collection and Other Documents (95-108). CDL Press

Die Kosmogonie des alten Mesopotamien (2016)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2016). Die Kosmogonie des alten Mesopotamien. In M. Gindhart, & T. Pommerening (Eds.), Anfang und Ende: vormoderne Szenarien von Weltentstehung und Weltuntergang (7-25). Philipp von Zabern

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2016). Introduction. In A. George, & T. M. Oshima (Eds.), Ancient Mesopotamian Religion and Mythology: Selected Essays by W. G. Lambert [author] (1-8). Mohr Siebeck