William W. Hallo is the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature Emeritus and former Curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale University. He holds degrees from Harvard (BA, 1950), Leiden (Candidatus Litterarum Semiticarum 1951) and Chicago (MA 1953 and Ph.D. 1955 in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures). He is author or co-author of The Book of the People (1991), Scripture in Context (4 vols. 1980-1991), Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (2 vols. 1984), Sumerian Archival Texts (1973), The Ancient Near East: A History (1971), The Exaltation of Inanna (1968), and Early Mesopotamian Royal titles (1957). He previously taught at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and has been Visiting Professor at Kassel (Germany), Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

• Part I: ProgrammaticsPart II: Catalogues and Other ScholiaPart III: Royal and Divine HymnsPart IV: Letter-PrayersPart V: Royal CorrespondencePart VI: HistoriographyPart VII: Myths and EpicsPart VIII: ProverbsPart IX: IncantationsPart X: Sumerian Literature and the Bible

William W. Hallo is the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature Emeritus and former Curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale University. He holds degrees from Harvard (BA, 1950), Leiden (Candidatus Litterarum Semiticarum 1951) and Chicago (MA 1953 and Ph.D. 1955 in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures). He is author or co-author of The Book of the People (1991), Scripture in Context (4 vols. 1980-1991), Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (2 vols. 1984), Sumerian Archival Texts (1973), The Ancient Near East: A History (1971), The Exaltation of Inanna (1968), and Early Mesopotamian Royal titles (1957). He previously taught at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and has been Visiting Professor at Kassel (Germany), Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

• Part I: ProgrammaticsPart II: Catalogues and Other ScholiaPart III: Royal and Divine HymnsPart IV: Letter-PrayersPart V: Royal CorrespondencePart VI: HistoriographyPart VII: Myths and EpicsPart VIII: ProverbsPart IX: IncantationsPart X: Sumerian Literature and the Bible

William W. Hallo is the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature Emeritus and former Curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale University. He holds degrees from Harvard (BA, 1950), Leiden (Candidatus Litterarum Semiticarum 1951) and Chicago (MA 1953 and Ph.D. 1955 in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures). He is author or co-author of The Book of the People (1991), Scripture in Context (4 vols. 1980-1991), Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (2 vols. 1984), Sumerian Archival Texts (1973), The Ancient Near East: A History (1971), The Exaltation of Inanna (1968), and Early Mesopotamian Royal titles (1957). He previously taught at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and has been Visiting Professor at Kassel (Germany), Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

• Part I: ProgrammaticsPart II: Catalogues and Other ScholiaPart III: Royal and Divine HymnsPart IV: Letter-PrayersPart V: Royal CorrespondencePart VI: HistoriographyPart VII: Myths and EpicsPart VIII: ProverbsPart IX: IncantationsPart X: Sumerian Literature and the Bible