Amar Annus

Amar Annus is an Estonian assyriologist and Associate Professor of Near Eastern Religions in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Tartu.
His work has been published by many prominent publishers, such as SAGE Publications, The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Butzon und Becker, Springer Publishing, Ugarit-Verlag, Walter de Gruyter, Taylor & Francis, Brill, and Mohr Siebeck, 
== Notable work ==
* The God Ninurta in the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia - PhD-Thesis
*Are there Greek Rephaim? On the Etymology of Greek Meropes and Titanes
*Babylonian Flood Story in the Nag Hammadi Writings
*Ninurta and the Son of Man
*The Standard Babylonian Epic of Anzu: Introduction, cuneiform text, transliteration, score, glossary, indices and sign list
*The Survivals of the Ancient Syrian and Mesopotamian Intellectual Traditions in the Writings of Ephrem Syrus
*Soul's Ascent and Tauroctony: On Babylonian Sediment in the Syncretic Religious Doctrines of Late Antiquity
*The Soul’s Journeys and Tauroctony: On Babylonian Sediment in the Syncretic Religious Doctrines of Late Antiquity
*The Folk-Tales of Iraq and the Literary Traditions of Ancient Mesopotamia
*Some Otherworldly Journeys in Mesopotamian, Jewish, Mandaean and Yezidi Traditions
*Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World
*The Marduk Ordeal and Two Babylonian Omens
*Ludlul bēl nēmeqi: The Standard Babylonian Poem of the Righteous Sufferer: Introduction, cuneiform text, and transliteration with a translation and glossary
*On the Beginnings and Continuities of Omen Sciences in the ancient World
*On the Origin of Watchers: A Comparative Study of the Antediluvian Wisdom in Mesopotamian and Jewish Traditions
*The Mesopotamian Precursors of Adam’s Garment of Glory and Moses’ Shining Face
*A Six-Column Babylonian Tablet of Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and the Reconstruction of Tablet IV
*The Antediluvian Origin of Evil in the Mesopotamian and Jewish Traditions: A Comparative Study
*The Spiritual Dimensions of Healing Rituals in Ancient Mesopotamia
== Links ==
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