From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

Jacob Klein is Professor Emeritus of Assyiology and Biblical Studies at Bar-Ilan University, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and one of the founders of the Israel Society for Assyriology and Near Eastern Studies. He is the coauthor of In Those Distant Days: Anthology of Mesopotamian Literature.Yitschak Sefati is Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Noah Kramer Institute of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan Univesity. He is the author of Love Songs in Sumerian Literature.

“Editing the texts in this volume is a tremendous accomplishment. One can only imagine all the effort and scholarship that went into this publication, which hopefully will reach a broader audience than Sumerologists alone.”—John Hayes Review of Biblical Literature

• PrefaceGeneral IntroductionI. Gilgameš and the Bull of HeavenIntroductionOutline of the Plot Political-Historical Background Description of the Moussaieff Tablet (ShM) Composite Text and Translation Commentary Score The Mussaieff Tablet Transliteration .Copy Photographs Word Index II. An Old Babylonian Bilingual Lexical Text Introduction Transliteration and Translation Commentary Sequence of Basic Sign Forms Comparative Synopsis of KA, IGI, and KU in the Syllabaries ShM, Proto-Ea, and EaComparative Synopsis of Syllabaries —Number of Lexical EntriesSyllabary Sumerian-Akkadian Word Index Akkadian-Sumerian Word Index Photographs III. Lenticular School Tablets Introduction Collection A (nos. 1–10) Collection B (nos. 46–69) Word Index Bibliography and Abbreviations General Index