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Jeffrey H. Tigay,The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP, 1982), pp. 241–250, gives an overview of the versions ofGilgamesh.
—— pp. 173–176, and Appendix, pp. 275–290.
Poulain (p. 98) notes the complete absence of these Stoic virtues in the vocabulary of the New Testament.
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Maier, J. Gilgamesh: Anonymous tradition and authorial value. Neohelicon 14, 83–95 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02094674
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