Personen
W.G. Lambert
(1926-2011): 1955–59 Lecturer, University of Toronto; 1959–64 Associate Professor and Chair of Oriental Seminary, Johns Hopkins University; 1964 Lecturer, then 1970–93 Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham; 1971 Fellow of the British Academy. He devoted his life to the decipherment and study of cuneiform tablets, chiefly in the British Museum, and is noted for his masterly reconstruction of a large number of Babylonian literary texts, beginning with Babylonian Wisdom Literature (1960) and concluding with Babylonian Creation Myths (2013).
A.R. George
Born 1955; 1985 PhD in Assyriology under the supervision of Wilfred G. Lambert; since 1983 he has taught Akkadian and Sumerian language and literature at SOAS, University of London, where he is now Professor of Babylonian; 2006 Fellow of the British Academy; 2012 Honorary Member of the American Oriental Society.
Rezensionen
Folgende Rezensionen sind bekannt:
In: Cadmo - Rev. de Historia Antiga—27 (2018), S. 232-236
(Allen Seudin)
In: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament—41.5 (2017)
(John F. Healey)
In: Numen—64 (2017), S. 109-113
(Christoph Uehlinger)
In: Revue Biblique—123 (2016), S. 628
(Jean-Michel de Tarragon)
In: Salesianum—79 (2017), S. 572-573
(Rafael Vicent)
In: —2018, S. 1-3
(The Ds Commentary on Books)
In: The Polish Journal of Bibl. Research—15 (2016), S. 81-84
(Zdzislaw J. Kapera)
In: Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW)—129 (2017), S. 160
(Manfred Krebernik)
