Enuma Elish: Volume 2: 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 any case being recorded on seven clay tablets, this epic was once came upon by 19th-century archeologists a few of the ruins of the Library of King Ashurbanipal in up to date-day Iraq. Translator and editor L.W. King has divided the Seven Tablets of Creation into two volumes. Volume 1 comprises the English translation of each and 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. Here, in Volume 2, readers will find other accounts of the history of creation, an index, a glossary, and a lot of indices and appendices. Religious scholars and any person interested in human origins will enjoy King’s translation of and observation on this classic, first published in 1902. British classical scholar LEONARD W. KING (1869-1919) was once Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at 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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