Enuma Elish

"This work, the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible, presents Enuma Elish in transliteration, transcription and translation, with an introduction for readers and essays from leading scholars in the field. Essays cover important historical and contextual information, offer discussions of key topics and explanations of technical terms, as well as suggestions of relevant further reading. The book's interpretive and reflective approach encourages a greater understanding of the poem as a work of literature while remaining grounded in philology"--