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Thorkild Jacobsen: The treasures of darkness: a history of Mesopotamian religion, ix, 273 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. $15, £10.80.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1978

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1 e.g. the translation of the temple name é.an.na as ‘house of the date clusters’ (p. 17)Google Scholar instead of the usual ‘house of heaven’ (see Falkenstein, , Orientalia, Analecta, 30, I, 1966, 149 and 156)Google Scholar; or the novel rendering of inūma ilū awīlum, the problematic first line of the Atra-ḫasīs myth, as ‘When Ilu (i.e. Enlil) was the boss’ (p. 117Google Scholar; cf. Lambert, W. G., Atra-ḫasīs, Oxford, 1969, 43Google Scholar; idem, Orienlalia, XXXVIII, 4, 1969, 533–8; von Soden, ibid., XXXVIII, 3, 1969, 415–32; idem, ibid., XXXIX, 2, 1970, 311–14; Moran, , Biblica, LII, 1, 1971, 53, p. 59, n. 2).Google Scholar