| Simo Parpola |
Foreword |
v |
| |
Symposium Program |
viii |
| |
List of Participants |
xi |
| R. M. Whiting |
Introduction |
xiii |
| R. M. Whiting |
The Shape of the Melammu Database [HTML] |
xvii |
| Tzvi Abusch |
The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Homeric Epics [PDF] |
1 |
| Amar Annus |
Ninurta and the Son of Man [PDF] |
7 |
| Cristiano Grottanelli |
The Story of Combabos and the Gilgamesh Tradition [PDF] |
19 |
| Ithamar Gruenwald |
Ritual, Economy, and the Religion of Ancient Israel [PDF] |
29 |
| Jaakko Hãmeen-Anttila |
Descent and Ascent in Islamic Myth [PDF] |
47 |
| Jack N. Lawson |
Mesopotamian Precursors to the Stoic Concept of Logos [PDF] |
69 |
| Martti Nissinen |
Akkadian Rituals and Poetry of Divine Love [PDF] |
93 |
| Edward Y. Odisho |
The Ethnic, Linguistic and Cultural Identity of Modern Assyrians [PDF] |
137 |
| Antonio Panaino |
Between Mesopotamia and India. Some Remarks about the Unicorn Cycle in Iran [PDF] |
149 |
| Simo Parpola |
Mesopotamian Precursors to the Hymn of the Pearl [PDF] |
181 |
Beate Pongratz-
Leisten |
The Other and the Enemy in the Mesopotamian Conception of the World [PDF] |
195 |
| Robert Rollinger |
The Ancient Greeks and the Impact of the Ancient Near East. Textual evidence and historical perspective (ca. 750-650 BC) [PDF] |
233 |
| Philippe Talon |
Enuma Eliš and the Transmission of Babylonian Cosmology to the West [PDF] |
265 |
| Moshe Weinfeld |
The Roots of the Messianic Idea [PDF] |
279 |
| |
Addresses of the Contributors |
288 |
