Thank you for your kind words, Rick.
Yes, the Project Gutenberg (where the Budge book is linked from) has got a few jewels, actually. They even have some old Finnish books... in Finnish!! Like my favourite story of the dragon who was sad because didn't want to be mean anymore.
I wouldn't knock Budge on akkadian translations. Of course, I can't compare him to anybody who is somebody in the field (because I don't know!), but Budge studied the languages involved for quite a while and had a passion for Assyriology way before he ever had anything to do with Egyptology. And a quick peek at the text in question assured me of the (almost complete!) absence of the painful (yes, somebody whose native language is not English, it's truly painful to read!!) Biblical language he used in the BoD.

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