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PREFACE

XI

INTRODUCTION:—

XXV

I. DESCRIPTION AND LITERATURE OF THE POEM ENUMA ELISH

XXV

II. CONTENTS OF THE POEM AND DISCUSSION OF NEW MATERIAL

XXX

III. COMPOSITION OF THE POEM

LXVI

IV. DATE AND ORIGIN OF THE BABYLONIAN CREATION LEGENDS

LXXII

V. INFLUENCE OF THE BABYLONIAN CREATION LEGENDS AND PARALLELS IN HEBREW LITERATURE

LXXX

VI. AUTHORITIES FOR THE TEXT OF THE POEM ENUMA ELISH AND THE ASSYRIAN COMMENTARIES

XCVII

VII. RECONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEXT

CXX

TRANSLITERATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS:—

I. THE SEVEN TABLETS OF THE HISTORY OF CREATION.

I. THE FIRST TABLET

2

II. THE SECOND TABLET

22

III. THE THIRD TABLET

38

IV. THE FOURTH TABLET

58

V. THE FIFTH TABLET

78

VI. THE SIXTH TABLET

86

VII. THE SEVENTH TABLET

92

EPILOGUE

110

II. OTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE HISTORY OF CREATION.

I. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE DRAGON-MYTH

116

II. A REFERENCE TO THE CREATION OF THE CATTLE AND THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD

122

III. A REFERENCE TO THE CREATION OF THE MOON AND THE SUN

124

IV. AN ADDRESS TO THE RIVER OF CREATION

128

V. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD BY MARDUK

130

VI. THE "CUTHAEAN LEGEND OF THE CREATION"

140

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APPENDICES:—

I. ASSYRIAN COMMENTARIES AND PARALLEL TEXTS TO THE SEVENTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES

157

II. ON SOME FRAGMENTS OF THE SERIES ENUMA ELISH, AND ON SOME TEXTS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF CREATION

182

III. ON SOME TRACES OF THE HISTORY OF CREATION IN RELIGIOUS AND ASTROLOGICAL LITERATURE

204

IV. SUPPOSED ASSYRIAN LEGENDS OF THE TEMPTATION AND THE TOWER OF BABEL

219

V. A "PRAYER OF THE RAISING OF THE HAND" TO ISHTAR

222

INDICES, GLOSSARY, ETC.:—

I. INDEX TO TEXTS.

A. CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM BABYLONIAN TABLETS, ETC., IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, PART XIII (1901), PLATES 1-41

239

B. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS, PUBLISHED IN VOL. II, PLATES, I-LXXXIV

241

C. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS, PUBLISHED IN APPENDICES I, II, AND III.

244

II. INDEX TO REGISTRATION NUMBERS

245

III. GLOSSARY OF SELECTED WORDS

251

IV. INDEX TO NAMES OF DEITIES, STARS, PLACES, ETC.

266

PLATES:—

I. THE SIXTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES

VIII

II. THE FIRST TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES

XXXV

III. THE SECOND TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES

XLIII

IV. THE FOURTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES

XLVII

V. THE FIFTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES

LI

VI. THE SEVENTH TABLET OF THE CREATION SERIES

LXI