Mesopotamian ritual-prayers of "hand-lifting" (Akkadian Suillas) : an investigation of function in light of the idiomatic meaning of the rubric - Frechette, Christopher G. (Ugarit-Verlag, 2012)
Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (Th.D.)--Harvard, 2005, under the title, "The name of the ritual : investigating Ancient Mesopotamian 'hand-lifting' rituals for the interpretation of genre in the Psalms"