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Title: Draws From Different Gilgamesh Texts
Review: Rather than simply relying on the version of the Epic which survived in Assurbanipal's palace in Nineveh, the author picks and chooses her sources, relying usually on the Ninevite Recension but sometimes on other extant Gilgamesh texts such as the Sumerian poems which were a source for the Assyrians.A disappointing aspect is that the author has not translated the work herself but rather collated and rewritten existing translation. She is quite upfront about it, and views her contribution as having created a very readable version of Gilgamesh to supplement the academic translations available. And that she has.
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