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Samuel Noah Kramer (1897 - 1990) was one of the world's leading Assyriologists and a world-renowned expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language. After high school he attended Temple University before Dropsie and Penn. Kramer earned his PhD in 1929, and was famous for assembling tablets recounting single stories that had become distributed among different institutions around the world. He retired from formal academic life in 1968, but remained very active throughout his post-retirement years. John Maier is the translator, with novelist John Gardner of Gilgamesh, and gthe author, co-author, editor or co-editor of several books and articles that range from literary studies of the Bible (The Bible in its Literary Milieu) to a study of major Mesopotamian literary and religious tradition in Myths of Enki, The Crafty God. Maier is a Professor of English at the State University of New York College at Brockport and holds the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in teaching.

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