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Foster, Benjamin R. 2016. The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia. London: Routledge.
Foster, Benjamin R. 2019. “Authorship in Cuneiform Literature.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship, edited by Ingo Berensmeyer, Gert Buelens, and Marysa Demoor, 13–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Frayne, Douglas. 1993. Sargonic and Gutian Periods, 2334–2113 BC. Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. 1992. In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. New York: Free Press.
Gabbay, Uri. 2008. “The Akkadian Word for Third Gender: The kalû (gala) Once Again.” In Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, edited by R. D. Biggs, J. Myers, and M. T. Roth, 49–56. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 62. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Gabbay, Uri. 2014a. “The Balaĝ Instrument and Its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia.” In Music in Antiquity: The Near East and the Mediterranean, edited by Joan Goodnick Westenholz, Yossi Maurey, and Edwin Seoussi, pp. 129-47. Yuval 7. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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George, Andrew R. 2005. “In Search of the é.dub.ba.a: The Ancient Mesopotamian School in Literature and Reality.” In “An Experienced Scribe Who Neglects Nothing”: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein, edited by Yitschak Sefati, Pinhas Artzi, Chaim Cohen, Barry L. Eichler, and Victor A. Hurowitz, 127–37. Bethesda: CDL Press.
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Glaz, Sarah. 2020. “Enheduanna: Princess, Priestess, Poet, and Mathematician.” The Mathematical Intelligencer 42: 31–46
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Helle, Sophus. 2019a. “The Birth of the Author: Co-Creating Authorship in Enheduana’s Exaltation.” Orbis Litterarum 75, no. 2: 55–72.
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