In The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries Uri Gabbay offers a detailed study of the well-developed set of technical terms found in ancient Mesopotamian commentaries from the first millennium BCE, essential for reconstructing ancient scholarly discourse and hermeneutics.

Uri Gabbay is a senior lecturer in Assyriology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has published extensively on Sumerian and Akkadian literature, including Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods: Sumerian Emesal Prayers of the First Millennium BCE (Wiesbaden, 2014).