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W. H.
Shea. 1984. A comparison of narrative elements in ancient Mesopotamian
creation-flood stories with Genesis 1-9. Origins 11:9-29.
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E. A.
Speiser. 1955. Akkadian myths and epics, In J. B. Pritchard (ed.),
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, pp. 101-103.
Princeton University Press, Princeton. For my detailed analysis of the Adapa
Epic, see: W. H. Shea. 1977. Adam in ancient Mesopotamian traditions. Andrews
University Seminary Studies 15:27-42.
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Ibid.,
p. 39.
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For a
useful discussion of these wisemen and the sources in which they are referred
to, see: W. W. Hallo, 1970, Antediluvian cities, Journal of Cuneiform Studies
23:62.
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For a
discussion of these textual variants, see Ibid., pp. 61-63.
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A. L.
Oppenheim. 1955. Babylonian and Akkadian historical texts. In ANET,
pp. 265-266. See Note 1 for complete reference.
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Hallo,
"Antediluvian Cities," p. 62.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.,
p. 64.
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Ibid.,
p. 65, n. 95.
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E. A.
Speiser. 1985. Genesis. Anchor Bible. 3rd ed. Vol. 1, p. 42. Doubleday,
Garden City, New York.
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Ibid.
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W. H.
Shea. 1984. A comparison of narrative elements in ancient Mesopotamian
creation-flood stories with Genesis 1-9. Origins 11:25.
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T.
Jacobsen. 1981. The Eridu Genesis. Journal of Biblical Literature
100:513-529. For the discussion of man's nomadic conditions before he was
granted the gift of kingship, see especially pp. 516-518.
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Speiser,
Genesis, p. 42.
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W. G.
Lambert and A. R. Millard. 1969. Atra-Hasis: the Babylonian story of the
flood. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 67, 71, and 73.
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“Each ancient Near Eastern flood
story has a hero: the biblical hero is Noah, the Old
Babylonian hero is Atra-hasis,
the Sumerian hero is Ziusudra, and the Neo-Assyrian hero is
Utnapishtim. Because their names cannot be connected
linguistically, it may appear that Noah's name is unknown
outside the Bible. In this regard, one other flood story
from Mesopotamia or Anatolia should be considered: the Hurrian Flood
Story, the tablet for which was found in the archive at Boghazkoy,
the ancient Hittite capital of Hattushash.”