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Jean Bottéro was the emeritus director of l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, quatrième section, Paris. He was the author of The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia; Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods, and coauthor of Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in the Ancient Near East, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Teresa Lavender Fagan has translated more than a dozen books for the University of Chicago Press.