LEGENDS OF BABYLON AND EGYPT
Important material for the study of the uso and reshaping by the Hebrew redactors of Genesisoof. f Assyrian and Egyptian stories of the creation- and ihe early world has conic from America since the beginning of the war, in the shape of tho deciphering of early Sumerian texts written towards the close nf the'third irilldiniuin, P/.C. Professor King \isod the materia! in his British Academy Schweich Lectures of MKi, now published. "The most remarkable of the nciv documents is'ow which ivlntrd in poetical narrative nn account of the cr«tlin:i of antediluvian history, and of the Deluge. It thus exhibits a dose re-Tin-bianco in structure to the torrespoudin;; Hebiow traditions, a resemblance Ilia! is not shared by the Semitic-Babylonian versions at pv'psont known. But in matter the Sumerian tradition is more primitive- th"u any of the Semitic versions." Translations of the text are given in the lectures and Iho significance of the fresh light is brought out. In view of the opening up of Mesopotamia by the British "ictnrics, the detailed geographical and historical matter of the lectures acquires an even more living interest.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 244, 9 July 1919, Page 7
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188LEGENDS OF BABYLON AND EGYPT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 244, 9 July 1919, Page 7
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