SKL Bibliography

Below we have given a listing of Secondary sources, a small bibliography.
Because he is an excellent authority, Lambert's reading suggestions are given
first. (These appear in an excursus in his 1969 publication)


Lambert: "The standard edition is that of T. Jacobsen, AS II, who suggested it
[the SKL] was first compiled about 2100 B.C.; F.R. Kraus, in ZA 50. 29-60,
published a little new material and proposed that the date of compilation be in
the Isin-Larsa period, c. 1900-1800 B.C.; M. Rowten, in JNES 19. 156 ff., offered
arugments in favour of a date c. 2100-2000 B.C. New material and appropriate
discussions have been offered by: M. Civil, JCS 15. 79-80; J. J. Finkelstein,
JCS 17. 39-51; W.W Hallo, JCS 17. 52-7."


In addition, the following works may be of interest:

EDZARD, “Königslisten und Chroniken, A”; D. V. ETZ, “The Numbersof Genesis V 3–31:
A Suggested Conversion and Its Implications,” VT 43 (1993):171–89;

B. GOODNICK, “Parallel Lists of Prediluvian Patriarchs,” Dor le Dor 13 (1984):47–51;
GRAYSON, “Königslisten und Chroniken, B”;

T. C. HARTMAN, “Some Thoughts on the Sumerian King List and Genesis 5 and 11b,”
JBL 91 (1972): 25–32;

G. F. HASEL, “The Genealogies of Gen 5 and 11 and Their Alleged Babylonian Background,”
AUSS 16 (1978): 361–74

J. KLEIN, “A New Nippur Duplicate of the Sumerian Kinglist in the Brockmon Collection,
University of Haifa,” in Velles paraules: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Miguel
Civil (ed. P. Michalowski et al.;AuOr 9; Barcelona: Editorial AUSA, 1991), 123–2

W. G. LAMBERT, “Enmeduranki and Related Matters,” JCS 21 (1967): 126–38;

P. MICHALOWSKI, “History as Charter: Some Observations on the Sumerian King List,”
in Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East: Dedicated to Samuel Noah
Kramer (ed. J. M. Sasson; AOS 65; NewHaven: American Oriental Society, 1984), 237–48

E. REINER, “The Etiological Myth of the ‘Seven Sages,’” Or 30 (1961): 1–11;

E. SOLLBERGER, “New Lists of the Kings of Ur and Isin,” JCS
8 (1954): 135–36; VAN SETERS, In Search of History, 70–72;


J. C. VANDERKAM, Enoch: A Man for All Generations (Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 1995), 6–14;

C. VINCENTE, “The Tell Leilan Recension of the Sumerian King List,” ZA 85 (1995): 234–70;

J. WALTON, “The Antediluvian Section of the Sumerian King List
and Genesis 5,” BA 44 (1981): 207–8;

C. WILCKE, “Genealogical and Geographical Thought in the Sumerian King List,” in
DUMU-E2–DUB-BA-A: Studies in Honor of Åke Sjöberg (ed. H. Behrens, D. T. Loding, and
M. Roth; OPSNKF 11; Philadelphia: University Museum, 1989), 557–71;

D.W. YOUNG, “The Influence of Babylonian Algebra on Longevity among the Antediluvians,
”ZAW102 (1990): 321–35; IDEM, “AMathematical Approach Hendrickson Publishers Third galleys
34071 January 26, 2005 to Certain Dynastic Spans in the Sumerian King List,” JNES 47 (1988):
123–29; IDEM, “On the Application of Numbers from Babylonian Mathematics to Biblical Life Spans
and Epochs,” ZAW 100 (1988): 332–61.