Wikipedia’s List of Bronze Age Literature
The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1 to 11
Institute of Catholic Culture – “The Sumerians, Hesiod, & Creation in the Old Testament”
Institute of Catholic Culture – “THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH AND NOAH’S FLOOD: Fact or Fiction?”
The Book of Job
G.K. Chesterton’s Introduction to the Book of Job (audio)
CERC – On the nakedness and temerity of Job—and ourselves
The Book of Psalms
Commentary on the Book of Psalms by Saint Robert Bellarmine (d. 1621) (this aligns with Year 1 of the Modern Stream).
The Utrecht Psalter (literal illustrations of the Psalms, see each literal illustration as you click on any given verse)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
On teaching the Epic of Gilgamesh
How to Read Gilgamesh
Annenberg Learner – Introduction to World Literature – The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anthologies of Primary Source Texts, The Ancient Near East
Readings in Ancient History : Illustrative Extracts from the Sources, Volume I: Greece and the East
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East – Volume I, Babylonia and Assyria
The Literature of Ancient Sumer
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions
Library of the World’s Best Literature – Volume I
Hear SUMERIAN and AKKADIAN STORIES (YouTube Playlist)
Ancient Recitations from the Ancient Near East (YouTube Playlist)
Timeless Readings of Sumerian Texts (YouTube Playlist)
Anthologies of Primary Source Texts, Ancient Egypt
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East – Volume II, Egypt
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
The World’s Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art – Volume III, Egypt
Ancient Records of Egypt : Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest – Volume I: First to Seventeenth Dynasties [II: 18th ; III: 19th ; IV: 20th to 26th]
Library of the World’s Best Literature – Volume IX