Hymn of the Righteous Sufferer

Further Reading

Books

• Albertson, R. G. “Job and Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Literature.” In Scripture in Context II: More Essays on the Comparative Method, ed. William W. Hallo, James C. Moyer, and Leo G. Perdue. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1983.
• Annus, Amar, and Alan Lenzi. Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi: The Standard Babylonian Poem of the Righteous Sufferer. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2010.
• Dalley, Stephanie, et al. The Legacy of Mesopotamia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Foster, Benjamin Read. “III: The Mature Period. B. Babylonian Poetry and Prose.” In Before the Muses. Vol. 1: Archaic, Classical, Mature. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, 1993.
• Lambert, W. G. Babylonian Wisdom Literature. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.
• ——— “A Further Attempt at the Babylonian ‘Man and his God’.” In Language, Literature and History: Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner, ed. Francesca Rochberg-Halton. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1987.

Journals

• George, A. L., and F. N. H. al-Rawi. “Tablets from the Sippar Library. VII. Three Wisdom Texts.“ Iraq 60 (1998): 187–196.
• Horowitz, W., and W. G. Lambert. “A New Exemplar of Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi Tablet I From Birmingham.” Iraq 64 (2002) 237–245.
• Lambert, W. G., and O. R Gurney. “The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer.” Anatolian Studies 4 (1954): 65–99.
• Moran, William L. “Notes on the Hymn to Marduk in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 103, no. 1 (January–March 1983): 255–260.

Web Sites

• “Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History.” Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Web site. http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/
• BetBasoo, Peter. “Brief History of Assyrians.” Assyrian International News Agency Web site. http://www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm