Selected resources

• The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

• Barmash, Pamela. The Laws of Hammurabi: At the Confluence of Royal and Scribal Traditions

• Bottéro, Jean. Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods

• Charpin, Dominique. Hammurabi of Babylon

• Charpin, Dominique. Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

• Dalley, Stephanie, ed. and trans. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

• Foster, Benjamin R., ed. and trans. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature

• George, Andrew R., trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh

• Goetze, Albrecht, ed. Old Babylonian Omen Texts

• Harris, Rivkah. Ancient Sippar: A Demographic Study of an Old-Babylonian City (1894–1595 B.C.)

• Kramer, Samuel Noah. Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.

• Kriwaczek, Paul. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

• Lambert, W. G. Babylonian Creation Myths

• Oppenheim, A. Leo. Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization

• Paulus, Susanne, ed. Back to School in Babylonia

• Podany, Amanda H. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

• Roth, Martha T., ed. and trans. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor

• Roux, Georges. Ancient Iraq. 3rd ed. Penguin

• Seri, Andrea. Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. Equinox

• Tanret, Michel. “Learned, Rich, Famous, and Unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar.” In The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, edited by Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson

• Van de Mieroop, Marc. King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography

• Westbrook, Raymond. Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law. Johns Hopkins University Press