Endnote 8 – When Gods Go Hungry

Thorkild Jacobsen, “The Graven Image,” in Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross, ed. Patrick D. Miller et al. (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987), pp. 26–27. Text from Henry C. Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (London: British Museum, 1861–1909), vol. 4, pl. 25, col. iii.42–66. Another version of the hymn may be found in Erich Ebeling, Tod und Leben nach der Vorstellungen der Babylonier (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1931), pp. 120–121.