I’m with you. Not having the text is one thing, but to truncate the text deliberately seems a bit too heavy handed. There’s a similar problem in the COS regarding Gilgamesh. They include only Tablet XI.

But that’s pretty much what you get with COS, isn’t it? You get snippets of things that Hallo and Younger deemed relevant for biblicists to gain the “context” of the ANE. This is the major problem with constructing an anthology of ANE texts based on external motives. In a lot of ways, their editorial decisions are pretty much at their fancy (note, for instance, the section on omens), cutting whatever they see fit, occasionally without full acknowledgment (I don’t see that they acknowledge the drastic editing of EE, but they do note it in LUr for example). Of course, they recognize these issues, but I doubt many users of COS do, especially if they’re seminary students in a “backgrounds” course or something like that.

I agree with both of you. It it very far from adequate in my opinion and sometimes I just don’t see the logic to some editorial decisions.