The buried foundation of the Gilgamesh epic the Akkadian Huwawa narrative - Fleming, Daniel E. (Brill, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Abbreviations; Table 1: Early Second-Millennium Gilgamesh Narrative; Table 2: Reconstructed Relationships between Early Second-Millennium Gilgamesh Compositions; Foreword; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Enkidu's First Steppe: Competing Portraits of Enkidu in Yale and Penn; Chapter Three Defining the Bounds of the Akkadian Huwawa Narrative; Chapter Four From Sumerian to Akkadian: Major Innovations in the Akkadian Huwawa Tale; Chapter Five Behind Penn: Old Babylonian Introductions to the Huwawa Narrative and to the Epic; Chapter Six Conclusion; Bibliography
Based on contrasting characterization and narrative logic between the central Huwawa episode and the remaining material for the earliest Akkadian Gilgamesh, this book challenges the accepted notion that the famous epic was composed without recourse to a previous Akkadian narrative