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“... where the sources are quite maddeningly scanty. ‘We must resign ourselves,’ writes Jean Bottéro, a French scholar who has cornered the field of Mesopotamian food studies, ‘to not knowing everything, let alone knowing it well, and must get used to this cloudy and too often veiled method of observation.’ Until quite recently, it seemed ...”

“... and junior ‘personal’ deities looked after one’s daily interests. Frank Moore Cross and Jean Bottéro, among many others, have shown the Pentateuch’s indebtedness to Egyptian and Babylonian mythic narratives. In Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia, Bottéro gives an account of the Atrahasis, a Mesopotamian poem ...”