The Gilgamesh Epic: Bibliography

Dalley, Stephanie
1989 Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Translated with an Introduction and notes), pp. 39-153. The World's Classics. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. [Introduction, translation, and some explanatory notes.]
Ferry, David
1992 Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse. New York NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [A popularization.]
Hecker, Karl
1994 "Das akkadische Gilgamesch-Epos." in Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, vol. 3: Weisheitstexte, Mythen und Epen: Mythen und Epen II, pp. 646-744. Gutersloh: Gutersloher Verlagshaus. [Translation by a noted authority, with brief introduction, explanatory and textual notes, and bibliography.]
Heidel, Alexander
  1949 The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels.Chicago IL: The University of Chicago Press. [Translation by a noted authority, with detailed commentary on parallels and some explanatory notes.]
 
Jacobsen, Thorkild
1976 The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion, pp. 193-219. New Haven CT: Yale University Press.
Kovacs, Maureen Gallery
1989 The Epic of Gilgamesh: Translated, with an Introduction. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. [Introduction, translation, and some explanatory notes.]
Mason, Herbert
1972 Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative. Afterword by John H. Marks. Mentor Books. New York NY: The New American Library, Inc. [A "popularization" rather than a translation.]
Michaeli, Frank
1961 Textes de la Bible et de L'Ancien Orient, pp. 16-23: "Le Deluge." Cahiers d'archéologie biblique, no. 13. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Delachaux & Niestlé S. A. [Sets a translation of Tablet 11 in parallel columns with selections from Genesis 6-9. Has photo of the tablet.]
Oberhuber, Karl, ed.
1977 Das Gilgamesch-Epos. Wege der Forschung, vol. 215. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. [A collection of famous twentieth century articles on the Epic.]
Sandars, N. K.
1964 The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version with an introduction. Baltimore MD: Penguin Books Inc. [A popularization.]
Speiser, E. A.
  1969 ."The Epic of Gilgamesh." In Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd ed., pp. 72-99. Edited by James B. Pritchard. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. [Translation by a noted authority, with some explanatory notes.]
 



 
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