Reviewer Tammi Schneider Claremont University This volume was orginally a tribute to Jacobsen by JAOS. The result is volume more foused than a fetschrift.This book has a bibliography and beautiful preface and article on his danish background. Religious studies Review Jan 2003

• Bibliography of Thorkild Jacobsen - T. Abusch and J. HuehnergardThorkild Jacobsen: An Appreciation - Tzvi AbuschThorkild Jacobsen’s Danish Academic Background - Bendt AlsterThe Socio-Religious Framework of the Babylonian Witchcraft Ceremony Maqlu: Some Observations on the Introductory Section of the Text, Part I - Tzvi Abuschilu awilum: we-e i-la, ‘Gods: Men’ versus ‘Man: God’. Punning and the Reversal of Patterns in the Atrahasis Epic - Bendt AlsterThe Sumerians in their Landscape - Jeremy BlackThe Forerunners of Maru and Hamtu in Old Babylonian - Miguel CivilBuddies in Babylonia: Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Mesopotamian Homosexuality - Jerrold CooperThe Free Library Inanna Prism Reconsidered - Mark J. GellerWisdom, Nature and Piety in Some Biblical Psalms - Stephen A. GellerRedefining ‘Inchoate Marriage’ in Old Babylonian Contexts - Samuel GreengusA Model Court Case Concerning Inheritance - William W. HalloThe Lady of Girsu - Wolfgang Heimpelizuzzum and itulum - John HuehnergardA New Look at the ‘Oppression of Uruk’ Episode in the Gilgamesh Epic - Jacob KleinA Rare Exorcistic Fragment - Wilfred G. LambertThe Burden of the Scribes - Jack M. SassonIn the Beginning - Ake W. SjobergArchaic City Seals and the Question of Early Babylonian Unity - Piotr SteinkellerSanctus Lugalbanda - Herman L. J. VanstiphoutDer Kodex Urnamma (CU): Versuch einer Rekonstruktion - Claus Wilcke