FOREWORD - Simo Parpola
INTRODUCTION - R. M. Whiting
The Shape of the Melammu Database - R. W. Whiting
T. ABUSCH, The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Homeric Epics
A. ANNUS, Ninurta and the Son of Man
C. GROTTANELLI, The Story of Combabos and the Gilgamesh Tradition
I. GRUENWALD, Ritual, Economy, and the Religion of Ancient Israel
J. HAMEEN-ANTTILA, Descent and Ascent in Islamic Myth
J. N. LAWSON, Mesopotamian Precursors to the Stoic Concept of Logos
M. NISSINEN, Akkadian Rituals and Poetry of Divine Love
E. Y. ODISHO, The Ethnic, Linguistic, and Cultural Identity of Modern Assyrians
A. PANAINO, Between Mesopotamia and India: Some Remarks about the Unicorn Cycle in Iran
S. PARPOLA, Mesopotamian Precursors of the Hymn of the Pearl
B. PONGRATZ-LEISTEN, The Other and the Enemy in the Mesopotamian Conception of the World
R. ROLLINGER, The Ancient Greeks and the Impact of the Ancient Near East: Textual Evidence and Historical Perspective (ca-650 B.C.)
P. TALON, Enuma Elis and the Transmission of Babylonian Cosmology to the West
M. WEINFELD, The Roots of the Messianic Idea
Addresses of the Contributors