Endnote 9 – Did Ecclesiastes Copy Gilgamesh?

For the principal studies of the genre see Hans G. Güterbock, “Die historische Tradition and ihre literarische Gestaltung bei Babyloniern und Hethitern bis 1200,” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 42 (1934), pp. 1–91, esp. pp. 19–20, 62–86; A. Kirk Grayson, Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts (Toronto and Buffalo: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1975), pp. 7–9; Erica Reiner, “Die akkadische Literatur,” in Wolfgang Rollig, ed., Altorientalische Literaturen (Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft 1 (Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978), pp. 151–210, esp. pp. 176–180; Brian Lewis, The Sargon Legend: A Study of the Akkadian Text (American Schools of Oriental Research [ASOR] Diss.Ser. 4 (Cambridge, MA: ASOR, 1980), pp. 87–93; Joan Westenholz, “The Heroes of Akkad,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 103 (1983), pp. 327–336; Tremper Longman III, Fictional Akkadian Autobiography: A Generic and Comparative Study (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1991).