Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition

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

PREFACE

LEGENDS OF BABYLON AND EGYPT - IN RELATION TO HEBREW TRADITION

LECTURE I—EGYPT, BABYLON, AND PALESTINE, AND SOME TRADITIONAL ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION

LECTURE II — DELUGE STORIES AND THE NEW SUMERIAN VERSION

I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MYTH, AND ACCOUNT OF CREATION

II. THE ANTEDILUVIAN CITIES

III. THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS, AND ZIUSUDU'S PIETY

IV. THE DREAM-WARNING

V. THE FLOOD, THE ESCAPE OF THE GREAT BOAT, AND THE SACRIFICE TO THE SUN-GOD