Books! Yippee!!!!

A lot of these books are expensive. They are mainly used for academic purposes, not for use by the general public.
You won't find Sitchen or the Necronomicon here, sorry, I deal with reality as often as possible.
A few of these books are Ugaritic/Canaanite, not properly Sumerian or Babylonian; I happen to like Asherah.
-Michele

Inanna by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer

Mesopotamia by Gwendolyn Leick

Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context by Martti Nissinen

The Legacy of Mesopotamia by A. T. Reyes

Desire, Discord and Death by Neal H. Walls

The Serpent Symbol in the Ancient Near East by Leslie S. Wilson

The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic by A. R. George

Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic by Robert M. Best

Myths of Enki, the Crafty God by Samuel Noah Kramer

Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament by James Bennett Pritchard

Creation Stories of the Middle East by Ewa Wasilewska

History Begins at Sumer by Samuel Noah Kramer

Enuma Elish Vol 1 & 2 by Leonard W. King

The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai

The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel by Judith M. Hadley

Goddesses and Trees, New Moon and Yaweh by Othmar Keel

Women in the Ancient Near East by Arthur Frederick Ide

The Image of the Netherworld in the Sumerian Sources by Dina Katz

Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottero

Gods , Demons and Symbols of AncientMesopotamia by Jeremy Black

The Harps That Once . . . by Thorkild Jacobsen

Mesopotamian Witchcraft by Tzvi Abusch

The Literature of Ancient Sumer by Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson and Gabor Zolyomi

Where to buy? I recommend the following:

Eisenbrauns or alibris


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