Bibliography for Ancient Near Eastern Hells

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Sources

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. James B. Pritchard, ed. Third Edition with Supplement. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. Contains “The Vision of Kummâ.”

Coogan, Michael David, ed and trans. Stories from Ancient Canaan. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978. Contains “Baal and the Underworld.”

Dalley, Stephanie, ed. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh and Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Contains “Huluppu Tree” from The Epic of Gilgamesh, and “The Descent of Ishtar.”

Sandars, N. K. The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version with an Introduction. Baltimore: Penguin, 1960. Contains “The Dream of Enkidu” from The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Sladek, William R. “Inanna’s Descent to the Netherworld.” Ph.D. Diss, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1974.

Wyatt, N. Religious Texts from Ugarit. London: Sheffiled Academic Press, 2002, 123-26. Contains “Baal and the Underworld.”

Studies & Reference

American Schools of Oriental Research. Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Eric M. Meyers, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Campbell, Stuart & Anthony Green, eds. Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1995.

Katz, Dina. The Image of the Netherworld in the Sumerian Sources. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2003.

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About Ancient Near Eastern Hell
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Ancient Near Eastern Images


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