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Adler and Tuffin 2002 Adler, W. and P. Tuffin. The Chronography of George Synkellos. A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation translated with introduction and notes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (esp. pp. 13, 19, 24, 38-40, 60, 126-127, 136, 145, 155-156, 177-178, 210, 217-218, 223-224, 230-231, 239, 296-297, 301, 305-306, 322, 336, 395, 450).
Annus 2002 Annus, Amar. The God Ninurta in the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia. State Archives of Assyria Studies 14. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Coprus Project 2002.
Annus 2006 Annus, Amar. “The Survivals of the Ancient Syrian and Mesopotamian Intellectual Traditions in the Writings of Ephrem Syrus.” Ugarit-Forschungen 38 (2006) 1-25. [PDF]
Annus 2008 Annus, Amar. “The Soul's Journeys and Tauroctony. On Babylonian Sediment in the Syncretic Religious Doctrines of Late Antiquity.” In: Manfried L. G. Dietrich and Tarmu Kulmar (eds.). Body and Soul in the Conceptions of the Religions. Forschungen zur Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte 42. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag 2008, 1-46. [PDF]
Annus 2009 Annus, Amar. “Some otherworldly journeys in Mesopotamian, Jewish, Mandaean and Yezidi traditions.” In: Mikko Luukko, Saana Svärd and Raija Mattila (eds.). Of God(s), Trees, Kings, and Scholars. Neo-Assyrian and Related Studies in Honour of Simo Parpola. Studia Orientalia 106. Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society 2009, 315-326. [PDF]
Anz 1897 Anz, Wilhelm. Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung des Gnostizismus. Ein religionsgeschichtlicher Versuch. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 15.4. Leipzig: Hinrichs 1897.
Athanassiadi 1999 Athanassiadi, Polymnia. The Philosophical History. Text with translation and notes. Athens: Agameia 1999 (esp. pp. 98-99, 166-167).
Azize 2005 Azize, Joseph. The Phoenician Solar Theology. An Investigation into the Phoenician Opinion of the Sun Found in Julian's Hymn to King Helios. Gorgias Dissertations 15. Piscataway: Gorgias Press 2005 (esp. pp. 188).
Bailey 1947 Bailey, Cyril. Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex. Edited with Critical Apparatus, Translation and Commentary. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1947 (esp. pp. 468-471).
Barton 1994 Barton, Tamsyn. Ancient Astrology. London, New York: Routledge 1994.
Barton 1994 Barton, Tamsyn. Power and Knowledge, Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1994.
Basello 2002 Basello, Gian Pietro. “Elam and Babylonia. The evidence of the calendars.” In: A. Panaino and G. Pettinato (eds.). Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena. Melammu Symposia 3. Milan: Universita di Bologna & IsIAO 2002, 13-36. [PDF]
Beck 1957 Beck, Edmund. Des Heiligen Ephraem des Syrers Hymnen contra Haereses. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 170. Leuven: Durbecq 1957 (esp. pp. 5, 16, 34, 46, 49, 172-173, 176-177).
Beck 1984 Beck, Roger. “Mithraism since Franz Cumont.” In: H. Temporini and W. Haase (eds.). Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Part 2: Principat. Vol. 17.4: Religion. Berlin: De Gruyter 1984, 2002-2015.
Beckman 2002 Beckman, Gary. “'My Sun-god'. Reflections of Mesopotamian conceptions of kingship among the Hittites.” In: A. Panaino and G. Pettinato (eds.). Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena. Melammu Symposia 3. Milan: Universita di Bologna & IsIAO 2002, 37-43. [PDF]
Betz 1996 Betz, Hans Dieter. The Greek magical papyri in translation. Including the Demotic spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996 (esp. pp. 94, 102).
Bezold and Boll 1911 Bezold, Carl and Franz Boll. Reflexe astrologischer Keilinschriften bei griechischen Schriftstellern. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 1911/7. Heidelberg: Universitätsbuchhandlung 1911.
Bidez 1945 Bidez, J. Eos ou Platon et l'orient. Brussels: Hayez 1945 (esp. pp. 1-8).
Biggs 1967 Biggs, R. D. SA.ZI.GA. Ancient Mesopotamian Potency Incantations. Texts from the Cuneiform Sources 2. Locust Valley: J.J. Augustin 1967.
Boll 1912 Boll, F. “Hebdomas.” Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 7 (1912) 2547-2578.
Borger 1988 Borger, R. “König Sanherib's Eheglück.” Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 6 (1988) 5-11.
Bremmer 2008 Bremmer, Jan N. Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East. Leiden: Brill 2008.
Brock 1971 Brock, Sebastian. The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971 (esp. pp. 13, 62, 67-68, 76-77, 116-117, 122-123, 152,).
Brock 1999 Brock, Sebastian. From Ephrem to Romanos. Interactions between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity. London: Variorum Reprints 1999 (esp. Vol II: pp. 215-216, 219-220, 223, Vol VIII: pp. 185-186, Vol XI: pp. 67-68, 81).
Brown 1887 Brown Jr., Robert. “Etruscan Divinity-Names.” The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art 32 (1887) 324-324 ([nr. 810] [Periodicals Archive Online link]).
Brown 1888 Brown Jr., Robert. “Etruscan Moon-Names.” The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art 33 (1888) 173-174 ([nr. 827] [Periodicals Archive Online link]).
Brown 1888 Brown Jr., Robert. “The Etruscan Sun-Name “Usil”.” The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art 33 (18) 260 ([nr. 832] [Periodicals Archive Online link]).
Brown 1894 Brown Jr., Robert. “The Connexion between Babylonian and Greek Astronomy.” The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art 46 (1894) 379-380 ([nr. 1175] [Periodicals Archive Online link]).
Brown 1895 Brown Jr., Robert. “Greek Coin Types and the Constellation Figures.” The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art 48 (1895) 231 ([nr. 1220] [Periodicals Archive Online link]).
Brown 1896 Brown Jr., Robert. “Phoenicia and the Ancient Constellation Figures.” The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art 50 (1896) 351 ([nr. 1279] [Periodicals Archive Online link]).
Brown 1901 Brown Jr., Robert. “A Greek Circle of Late Times showing Euphratean Influence.” Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 23 (1901) 255-257.
Brunt 1976-1983 Brunt, P. A. Arrian. 2 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1976-1983 (esp. Vol I: pp. 136-139).
Budge 1889 Budge, E. A. Wallis. The History of Alexander the Great, being the Syriac Version. Edited from five manuscripts of the Pseudo-Callisthenes with an English Translation. London: Cambridge University Press 1889 (reprint: Amsterdan: APA-Philo Press 1976, esp. pp. cv-cvi, lxxxi-lxxxiii, 5-6, 11-12, 15).
Budge 1897 Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Laughable Stories collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus, Maphrian of the East from A.D. 1264 to 1286. The Syriac text edited with an English Translation. London: Luzac and Co 1897 (esp. pp. 177-181).
Budge 1913 Budge, E. A. Wallis. Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics or The Book of Medicines. London: Oxford University Press 1913 (esp. pp. 521-522, 552-553, 559, 619-620, 652-655).
Budge 1932 Budge, E. A. Wallis. The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician commonly known as Bar Hebraeus. Being the first part of his political history of the world (2 Vols.). London: Oxford University Press 1932 (reprint: Amsterdam: Philo Press 1976).
Bunnens 1969 Bunnens, Guy. “Les présages orientaux et la prise de Sardes.” In: Jacqueline Bibauw (ed.). Hommages à Marcel Renard. Collection Latomus 101-103. Brussels: Latomus 1969, 130-134.
Burkert 1992 Burkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution. Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Period. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992.
Burkert 1993 Burkert, Walter. “Heraclitus and the Moon. The New Fragments in P.Oxy. 3710.” Illinois Classical Studies 18 (1993) 49-55.
Burkert 2004 Burkert, Walter. “Gyges to Croesus. Historiography between Herodotus and Cuneiform.” In: A. Panaino and A. Piras (eds.). Schools of Oriental Studies and the Development of Modern Historiography. Melammu Symposia 4. Milan: Università di Bologna & IsIao 2004, 41-52. [PDF]
Burstein 1978 Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.
Butterworth 1960 Butterworth, G. W. Clement of Alexandria with an English Translation. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.
Böck 2000 Böck, Barbara. “'An Esoteric Babylonian Commentary' Revisited.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 (2000) 615-620. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]
Böck 2000 Böck, Barbara. Die babylonisch-assyrische Morphoskopie. Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 27. Vienna: Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien 2000.
Böck 2003 Böck, Barbara. “"When you perform the ritual of 'rubbing'." On Medicine and Magic in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 62 (2003) 1-16. [JNES (requires subscription)]
Carter 1987 Carter, Jane Burr. “The Masks of Ortheia.” American Journal of Archaeology 91 (1987) 355-383. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]
Cary 1969 Cary, Earnest. Dio's Roman History. On the basis of the version of Herbert Baldwin Foster. 9 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1969.
Civil 1974 Civil, Miguel. “Medical Commentaries from Nippur.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 33 (1974) 329-338. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]
Clarke, Dillon and Hershell 2003 Clarke, Emma C., John M. Dillon and Jackson P. Hershbell. Iamblichus, De Mysteriis. Translated with an Introduction and Notes. Writings from the Graeco-Roman World 4. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature 2003.
Clauss 2001 Clauss, Manfred. The Roman Cult of Mithras. The God and his Mysteries. London, New York: Routledge, 2001.
Colson and Whitaker 1958 Colson, F. H. and G. H. Whitaker. Philo. 10 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1958.
Cumont 1909 Cumont, François V. M. “Comment les Grecs connurent les tables lunaires des Chaldéens.” In: G. C. C. Maspero (ed.). Florilegium ou recueil de traveaux d’érudition dédiés à M. le Marquis Melchior de Vogüé à l’occasion du quatre-vingtième anniversaire de sa naissance. Paris: Geuthner 1909, 159-165.
Cumont 1911 Cumont, François V. M. “Babylon und die griechische Astronomie.” Neue Jahrbucher für das klassische Altertum, Geschichte und deutsche Literatur und für Pädagogik 27/28 (1911) 1-10.
Cumont 1912 Cumont, Franz. Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans. American Lectures on the History of Religions 8. New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1912.
Cureton 1855 Cureton, William. Spicilegium Syriacum. Containing Remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose and Mara Bar Serapion. London: Rivingtons 1855.
van Dalen 2004 van Dalen, Benno. “Review of Jones 1999.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 14 (2004) 127-129.
Dalley 1995 Dalley, Stephanie. “Bel at Palmyra and elsewhere in the Parthian Period.” ARAM 7 (1995) 137-151. [Peeters Online Journals (requires subscription)]
Dalley 1998 Dalley, Stephanie. “Occasions and Opportunities.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 9-55.
Dalley 1998 Dalley, Stephanie. “The Influence of Mesopotamia upon Israel and the Bible.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 57-83.
Dalley 1998 Dalley, Stephanie. “The Sassanian Period and Early Islam.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 163-181.
Dalley and Reyes 1998 Dalley, S. and A. T. Reyes. “Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 85-124.
Derchain 1966 Derchain, P. “Essai de classement chronologique des influences babyloniennes et hellénistiques sur l’astrologie égyptienne des documents démotiques.” In: F. Wendel (ed.). La divination en Mésopotamie ancienne et dans les régions voisines: XIVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Strasbourg, 2-6 juillet 1965). Travaux de Centre d’Études Supérieures spécialisé d’Histoire des Religions de Strasbourg. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1966, 147-158.
Dillon 1990 Dillon, John M. The golden chain. Studies in the development of Platonism and Christianity. London: Variorum 1990.
Dodge 1970 Dodge, Bayard. The Fihrist of al-Nadim. A tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. New York, London: Columbia University Press 1970.
Drews 1974 Drews, Robert. “Sargon, Cyrus and Mesopotamian Folk History.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 33 (1974) 387-393. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]
Drijvers 1965 Drijvers, Han J. W. The Book of the Laws of Countries. Dialogue on Fate of Bardaiṣan of Edessa. Semitic Texts with Translations 4. Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp 1965.
Drijvers 1980 Drijvers, Han J. W. Cults and Beliefs at Edessa. Études Préliminaires aux Religions Orientales dans l'Empire Romain 82. Leiden: E. J. Brill 1980.
Drower 1937 Drower, Ethel Stefana. The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran. Their cults, customs, magic, legends, and folklore. London: Clarendon Press 1937.
Drower 1938 Drower, Ethel Stefana. “S̱ẖafta ḏ Pis̱ẖra ḏ Ainia. A Mandaean Magical Text Translated and Transliterated. Part 2.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1938) 1-20.
Drower 1943 Drower, E. S. “A Mandaean Book of Black Magic.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1943) 149-181.
Drower 1949 Drower, E. S. Sfar Malwašia. The Book of the Zodiac. Oriental Translation Fund 35. London: Royal Asiatic Society 1949.
Dumezil 1986 Dumezil, Georges. The Plight of a Sorcerer. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press 1971.
Ebeling 1931 Ebeling, Erich. Tod und Leben nach den Vorstellungen der Babylonier. Berlin: De Gruyter 1931.
Falconer 1964 Falconer, W. A. Cicero, De senectute, De amicitia, De divinatione. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1964.
Faraone 1999 Faraone, Christopher A. Ancient Greek Love Magic. Cambridge MA, London: Harvard University Press 1999.
Fernández Fernández 2013 Fernández Fernández, Álvaro. “En búsqueda del paraíso caldaico.” ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones 18 (2013) 57-94. [PDF]
Finkel 1983 Finkel, I. “The Dream of Kurigalzu and the Tablet of Sins.” Anatolian Studies 33 (1983) 75-80. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]
Finkel 1983 Finkel, I. “Necromancy in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Archiv für Orientforschung 29 (1983) 1-17.
Fitzmyer and Harrington 1978 Fitzmyer, J. A. and D. J. Harrington. A Manual of Palestinian Aramaic Texts. Biblica et Orientalia 34. Rome: Biblical Institute 1978.
Forest 2007 Forest, J.-D. “L'Epopée de Gilgameš et la Genèse.” In: Joseph Azize and Noel Weeks (eds.). Gilgameš and the World of Assyria. Proceedings of the Conference held at Mandelbaum House, The University of Sydney, 21-23 July 2004. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 21. Leuven, Paris, Dudley MA: Peeters 2007, 91-106.
Foster 1993 Foster, Benjamin. Before the Muses. Ann Arbor: CDL Press 1993.
Fotheringham 1928 Fotheringham, John Knight. “The Indebtedness of Greek to Chaldaean Astronomy.” The Observatory 51 (1928) 301-315 (available on ADS).
Freedman 1998 Freedman, Sally M. If a City Is Set on a Height. The Akkadian Omen Series Šumma Alu ina Mēlê Šakin. Vol. 1: Tablets 1-21. Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 17. Philadelphia: Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 1998.
Friberg 2005 Friberg, Jöran. Unexpected links between Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics. Signapore: World Scientific 2005.
Friberg 2007 Friberg, Jöran. Amazing traces of a Babylonian origin in Greek mathematics. Hackensack NJ, London: World Scientific 2007.
Friedländer 1898 Friedländer, Moriz. Der vorchristliche jüdische Gnosticismus. Patristische und Talmudische Studien. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1898.
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Gadd 1923 Gadd, Cyril J. The Fall of Nineveh. London: Harrison and Sons Ltd 1923.
Gaiser 1988 Gaiser Konrad. Philodems Academica. Die Berichte über Platon und die Alte Akademie in zwei Herculanensischen Papyri. Supplementum Platonicum 1. Stuttgart: Frommann 1988.
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Geller 1991 Geller, Mark J. “Akkadian Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud.” In: D. Cohn-Sherbock (ed.). A Traditional Quest. Essays in honour of Louis Jacobs. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 114. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1991, 102-112.
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Geller 2000 Geller, Mark J. “The Survival of Babylonian Wissenschaft in Later Tradition.” In: S. Aro and R. M. Whiting (eds.). The Heirs of Assyria. Melammu Symposia 1. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project 2000, 1-6. [PDF]
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