Preface and acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Names
1.2 Babylonian speculative scholarship
1.3 The Gula hymn
1.4 Implications and conclusions
Chapter 2 Babylonian speculative scholarship
2.1 Intellectual background
2.2 Commentary texts
2.3 Sacred names and speculative scholarship
2.4 Ancient evidence
2.5 Modern scholarship
2.6 Text Corpus
Chapter 3 Speculative scholarship in the text corpus
3.1 The speculative techniques
3.2 The speculative methods
Chapter 4 The Gula hymn
4.1 The texts
4.2 The overlap
4.3 Overview of the Gula hymn
4.4 The context of the Gula hymn
4.5 Date of composition
Chapter 5 The Gula hymn: Critical edition
5.1 The Manuscripts
5.2 Table of Manuscripts and earlier editions
5.3 Introduction to the text of the Gula hymn
5.4 Transliteration and Translation of the Gula hymn
5.5 Commentary
Chapter 6 Babylonian speculative scholarship in the Gula hymn
6.1 Analysis: Speculative interpretation in the Gula hymn
6.2 Encoded names
6.3 Overview: Speculative techniques and methods in the Gula hymn
Chapter 7 Implications and conclusions
7.1 Babylonian speculative scholarship
7.2 The Gula hymn
7.3 Babylonian speculative scholarship and Jewish scholarship
7.4 The meaning of biblical names – Babylonian parallels?
7.5 Conclusion
Appendix 1 Cuneiform copy of BM 34399
Appendix 2 Temples and shrines known only from the Gula hymn
Bibliographical and other abbreviations
Bibliography
Index