Resources

Texts:

• The scholarly edition of Enuma Elish, with lots of other Ancient Near Eastern texts, is Lambert, W. G., ed. Babylonian Creation Myths. Mesopotamian Civilizations 16. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2013.

• Lambert’s text of the Enuma Elish can be found here.

• Smith’s original publication of the text is free here.

The most comprehensive collections of Ancient Near Eastern texts that relate to the Bible are not cheap, but have tons of fun texts:

• Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement, 1969. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691035031/ancient-near-eastern-texts-relating-to-the-old-testament-with.



• Hallo, William W., and Younger, eds. The Context of Scripture (3 Vols.): Canonical Compositions, Monumental Inscriptions and Archival Documents from the Biblical World. Brill, 2003. https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/17652.

Secondary Literature

• A great book on the topic of the ancient Near Eastern context of Genesis 1-11 is Carr, David M. The Formation of Genesis 1-11: Biblical and Other Precursors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• Check out Joshua Bowen’s The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament, Volume 2 to the Old Testament, Volume 2, which has a good section on the Enuma Elish