Fu professore di assiriologia alla Harvard University.
Opere principali Sumerian King List (1939) The Temple Oval at Khafajah - chapter by Thorkild Jacobsen (1940) Towards the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture - edited by William L. Moran (1970) The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (1976) The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (1977) The Harps that Once... Sumerian Poetry in Translation (1987)
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