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LEGENDS OF BABYLON AND EGYPT IN RELATION TO HEBREW TRADITION
Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum Professor in the University of London King's College First Published 1918 by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. THE BRITISH ACADEMY THE SCHWEICH LECTURES 1916
Contents
PREFACE
LEGENDS OF BABYLON AND EGYPT
IN RELATION TO HEBREW TRADITION
LECTURE I—EGYPT, BABYLON, AND PALESTINE, AND SOME TRADITIONAL ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION
LECTURE II — DELUGE STORIES AND THE NEW SUMERIAN VERSION
I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MYTH, AND ACCOUNT OF CREATION
II. THE ANTEDILUVIAN CITIES
III. THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS, AND ZIUSUDU'S PIETY
IV. THE DREAM-WARNING
V. THE FLOOD, THE ESCAPE OF THE GREAT BOAT, AND THE SACRIFICE TO THE SUN-GOD
VI. THE PROPITIATION OF THE ANGRY GODS, AND ZIUSUDU'S IMMORTALITY
LECTURE III — CREATION AND THE DRAGON MYTH; AND THE PROBLEM OF BABYLONIAN PARALLELS IN HEBREW TRADITION
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