Endnote 16 – The Genesis of Genesis

Lambert, “A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis,” Journal of Theological Studies 16 (1965), pp. 287–300; republished with two postscripts in “I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood”: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1–11, eds. R.S. Hess and D.T. Tsumura, Sources for Biblical and Theological Study 4 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994), pp. 96-113. Moshe Weinfeld’s transliteration and Hebrew translation of Enūma Eliš, published by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1973, refers in its notes to numerous additional parallels between individual lines and specific biblical verses.