Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition
by L. W. King
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About this eBook
- Author
- King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
- Credits
- Produced by John Bickers, Dagny and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BM: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Judaism
- Subject
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc.
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 2030
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2030
- Release Date
- March 28, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LEGENDS OF BABYLON AND EGYPT IN RELATION TO HEBREW TRADITION
- 2.By Leonard W. King, M.A., Litt.D., F.S.A. — 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
- 3.Contents
- 4.PREFACE — LEGENDS OF BABYLON AND EGYPT — IN RELATION TO HEBREW TRADITION
- 5.LECTURE I—EGYPT, BABYLON, AND PALESTINE, AND SOME TRADITIONAL ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION
- 6.LECTURE II — DELUGE STORIES AND THE NEW SUMERIAN VERSION
- 7.I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MYTH, AND ACCOUNT OF CREATION
- 8.II. THE ANTEDILUVIAN CITIES
- 9.III. THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS, AND ZIUSUDU'S PIETY
- 10.IV. THE DREAM-WARNING
- 11.V. THE FLOOD, THE ESCAPE OF THE GREAT BOAT, AND THE SACRIFICE TO THE SUN-GOD
- 12.VI. THE PROPITIATION OF THE ANGRY GODS, AND ZIUSUDU'S IMMORTALITY
- 13.LECTURE III — CREATION AND THE DRAGON MYTH; AND THE PROBLEM OF BABYLONIAN PARALLELS IN HEBREW TRADITION
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