Burkert (1991) p. 177 note 6 bibliography. "For this reason the connection between the cults was called in question both by Greek scholars (P. Kretschmer, Glotta 7 (1916) 39; G. Zuntz, MH 8 (195 1) 34) and also by Near Eastern scholars (H. Frankfort, The Problem of Similarity in Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 1951; C. Colpe in lišan mithurti: Festschrift W. v. Soden, 1969, 23). Cf. O. Eissfeldt, Adonis und Adonaj, SB Leipzig 115.4, 1970. S. Ribichini, Adonis, Aspetti ‘orientali’ di un mito greco, 1981, stresses the Greek re-elaborations of foreign elements." [...] "For all that, there is in Semitic tradition no known cult connected with this title which corresponds exactly to the Greek cult, to say the nothing of a counterpart to the Greek Adonis myth." [...] "What can be identified is the spread of the Mesopotamian Dumuzi-Tammuz cult" https://archive.org/details/greekreligion0000burk/page/176/mode/2up?q=adon&view=theater
