Andrew George (Herausgegeben von) Born 1955; 1973-79 studied at the University of Birmingham; 1976 BA; 1985 PhD; 1983-2020 taught Akkadian and Sumerian at SOAS University of London; 2000 Professor of Babylonian; 2000-01 Visiting Professor, Ruprecht-Karls-Universtät Heidelberg; 2004-05 Member, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton; 2006 Fellow of the British Academy; 2011 Honorary Member of the American Oriental Society; since 2020 retired as Professor Emeritus.Manfred Krebernik (Herausgegeben von) Born 1953; studied classics, Semitic languages and assyriology in Munich; academic assistant at the Institute of Assyriology in Munich; 1991-94 Heisenberg fellow; 1995-95 Professor of Assyriology in Munich; 1998-2021 Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and curator of the "Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities" at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; since 2003 corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy; 2021 retired.W.G. Lambert (Von (Autor)) (1926-2011): 1955–59 Lecturer, University of Toronto; 1959–64 Associate Professor and Chair of Oriental Seminary, Johns Hopkins University; 1964 Lecturer, then 1970–93 Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham; 1971 Fellow of the British Academy. He devoted his life to the decipherment and study of cuneiform tablets, chiefly in the British Museum, and is noted for his masterly reconstruction of a large number of Babylonian literary texts, beginning with Babylonian Wisdom Literature (1960) and concluding with Babylonian Creation Myths (2013).Ryan D. Winters (Von (Autor)) Born 1987; 2011-18 BA from the University of Chicago and PhD from Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; since 2018 employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.