Speaking at a European academic conference, the American biblical scholar Bernard Levinson pointed out that cuneiform literature from ancient West Asia contains, in isolation, “almost all the individual phenomena that we associate with the Bible,” including textual stabilization, a textual curriculum, memorization and study of texts, and texts acting as forms of acculturation. The literary genres are also for the most part the same, with their legal collections, theophany texts, prophetic utterances, rituals, omens, laments, hymns, prayers, and proverb collections. Moreover, our analyses of these texts reveal similar scribal techniques, such as superscriptions, acrostics, annotation, and colophons. Yet there is, according to Levinson, a crucial difference between biblical and cuneiform literature.