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Paul-Alain Beaulieu is Associate Professor of Assyriology at Harvard University, where he teaches Akkadian language and literature and the history of ancient Mesopotamia. He is the author of The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556–539 BC (1989), Legal and Administrative Texts from the Reign of Nabonidus (2000), and The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period (2003), as well as numerous articles on the history, religion, culture, and intellectual life of Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC. He is currently preparing a series of studies on cuneiform archives from Babylonia dated to the time of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid empires. Gary Beckman is Professor of Mesopotamian and Hittite Studies and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He previously taught at Yale University, where he also served as Associate Curator of the Babylonian Collection. He has published widely on the religion of Hatti and on Hittite social organization and diplomacy. In addition he has compiled two catalogues of the Old Babylonian cuneiform tablets held by the Yale Babylonian Collection. He is currently Associate Editor of The Journal of the American Oriental Society and of The Journal of Cuneiform Studies. Beckman's recent research has focused on the reception and adaptation of Syro-Mesopotamian culture by the Hittites. He is completing ... log in or subscribe to read full text