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One of the most memorable tales in Homer's Iliad is that of Bellerophon, the Corinthian hero sent as courier with a message deceitfully intended to arrange his death. A similar story is related in the Sumerian Sargon Legend of the eighteenth-century B.C.E., which tells of how Sa…

This dissertation explores the peculiarity that though the river term (nāru(m)/nhr/ nāhār) occurs 119 times, in the Hebrew Bible there are no rivers in Israel. The meaning of wadi (nahallu( m)/nhl/nahal), the torrential flow from winter rains or the gorge that remains when the w…

Members of the ancient Mesopotamian cult of Ištar have been subjected to various interpretations by scholars despite only a small number of textual references. In scholarly literature, assinnu have been described as everything from cultic prostitutes, to castrates, to “playboys”…