Endnote 2 – Getting Personal

Hess, Studies in the Personal Names of Genesis 1–11, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 234 (Neukircher-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1993), pp. 59–69. Examples from Old Akkadian include a-da-mu and a-dam-u. Examples from Ebla include a-da-ma, a-da-mi and a-da-mu. See Ignace J. Gelb, Glossary of Old Akkadian, materials for the Assyrian Dictionary 3 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1957), p. 19; G. Pettinati, Catalogo dei testi cuneiformi de Tell-Madikh—Ebla, Materiali epigrafici de Ebla 1 (Naples: Istituto universitario orientale, 1979), nos. 238, 929, 1671, 4966 and 5043.