Religion and Humanity in Mesopotamian Myth and Epic

Further Reading
Essential introductory reading
Black, Jeremy, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi. 
The Literature of Ancient Sumer
. Oxford: 
Oxford University Press, 2004.
Bottéro, Jean. 
Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
. Translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De 
Mieroop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Bottéro, Jean. 
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
. Translated by Teresa L. Fagan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 
2001.
Ehrlich, Carl S. 
From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature
. Plymouth: Rowman & 
Littlefield, 2009.
Foley, John Miles, ed. 
A Companion to Ancient Epic
. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
Hr
ůš
a, Ivan. 
Ancient Mesopotamian Religion: A Descriptive Introduction
. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2015.
Jacobsen, Thorkild. 
The Treasures of Darkness
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976.
Jacobsen, Thorkild
. “Mesopotamian Religions: An Overview (First Edition).” In 
Encyclopedia of Religion
. Edited by 
Lindsay Jones
, 5946–5963. 2d ed. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Pettinato, Giovanni
. “Mesopotamian Religions: Further Considerations.” In 
Encyclopedia of Religion
, edited by Lindsay 
Jones
, 5963–5967. 2d ed. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Useful works
Alster, Bendt. 
Wisdom of Ancient Sumer
. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2005.
Asher-Greve, Julia M., and Joan Goodnick Westenholz. 
Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships 
and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources
. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 259. Fribourg and Göttingen, 
Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
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