Johannes Haubold is Professor of Classics at Princeton University, USASophus Helle is Postdoctoral Fellow at The Free University of Berlin, Germany and Oxford University, UKEnrique Jiménez is Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, GermanySelena Wisnom is Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East, University of Leicester, UK

• Preface: Introducing the Library of Babylonian Literature, Johannes Haubold (Princeton University, USA), Sophus Helle (The Free University of Berlin, Germany), Enrique Jiménez (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany), Selena Wisnom (University of Leicester, UK)Part I: Enuma ElishIntroduction, Sophus Helle (The Free University of Berlin, Germany)Text and Translation, Adrian C. Heinrich and Sophus Helle (The Free University of Berlin, Germany)Part II: The History of the Epic1. Marduk and the Battle with the Sea: On the Dating of Enuma Elish, Enrique Jiménez (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)2. Enuma Elish in Cult and Ritual Performance,, Céline Debourse (University of Helsinki, Finland)3. The Cuneiform Reception, Frances Reynolds (University of Oxford, UK)4. Enuma Elish Outside the Cuneiform Tradition, Eckart Frahm (Yale University, USA)5. Monstrous Mothers and Metal Bands: Enuma Elish Today, Gina Konstantopolous (University of California Los Angeles, USA)Part III: Major Themes6. Marduk’s Elevation: A Masterpiece of Political Thought, Gösta Gabriel (The Free University of Berlin, Germany)7. Divine Rhetoric: Enuma Elish on Communication and Emotion, Johannes Haubold (Princeton University, USA)8. A Mirror for Queens: Gender, Motherhood, and Power in Enuma Elish, Karen Sonik (Auburn University, USA)9. Enuma Elish, Knowledge of the Heaves, and World Order, Francesca Rochberg (University of California Berkeley, USA)Part IV: Poetics and Hermeneutics10. Soothing the Sea: Intertextuality and Lament in Enuma Elish, Selena Wisnom (University of Leicester, UK)11. The Shape of Water: Content and Form in Enuma Elish, Sophus Helle (The Free University of Berlin, Germany)12. The Sound of Creation: The Revolutionary Poetics of Enuma Elish, Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, USA)13. Marduk’s Names and Cuneiform Hermeneutics, Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia University, USA)IndexBibliographyIndex

The essays present the Enuma Elish as a portal to further encounter with Akkadian cultures, as intended by the editors of this new series, and their contributions show this well.