Enuma Elish: Volume 1: The Seven Tablets of Creation; The Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and

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Enuma Elish, the Babylonian version of the story of creation, predates much of the Book of Genesis. Passed down orally for generations until in the end being recorded on seven clay tablets, this epic used to be found out by 19th-century archeologists some of the ruins of the Library of King Ashurbanipal in brand new-day Iraq. Translator and editor L.W. King has divided the Seven Tablets of Creation into two volumes. Here, in Volume 1, readers will find the English translation of every of the seven tablets, plus sections on the composition of the poem, parallels in Hebrew literature, and the reconstruction and arrangement of the text. (Volume 2 includes other accounts of the history of creation, an index, a glossary, and a large number of indices and appendices.) Religious scholars and somebody interested in human origins will enjoy King’s translation of and statement on this classic, first published in 1902. British classical scholar LEONARD W. KING (1869-1919) used to be Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities on the British Museum and professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology on the University of London, King’s College. He also wrote Babylonian Magic and Sorcery (1896) and A History of Sumer and Akkad (1910).

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