The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria - Part 96
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Part 96

Anz, Wilhelm.--Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung des Gnostizismus. (Leipzig 1897.) pp. 58-112, Die Herkunft ... aus Babylonien.

Ball, C. J.--The First Chapter of Genesis and the Babylonian Cosmogonies. PSBA XVIII.

Bonnett, E.--Les Decouvertes a.s.syriennes et le Livre de la Genese.

(Paris 1884.)

Boscawen, W. St. Chad.--The Bible and the Monuments. (London 1895.)

Brandt, W.--Die a.s.syrisch-Babylonische Keilschriftliteratur und das Alte Testament. Deutsch-evang. Blatter, 1884. Heft 3. pp. 164-187.

Brown, Francis.--Critical review with valuable comments of E. Schrader's 'Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament.' AJP IV. 338-343.

---- The Sabbath in the Cuneiform Records. PR, 1882, 688-700.

---- a.s.syriology: Its Use and Abuse in Old Testament Study. (New York 1885.)

Brown, Robert, Jr.--Semitic Influence in h.e.l.lenic Mythology. (London 1898.)

[Part III. discusses Babylonian Influence.]

Buddensieg, R.--Die a.s.syrischen Ausgrabungen und das Alte Testament.

(Heilbronn 1880.)

Delitzsch, Friedrich.--Wo Lag das Paradies? Eine Biblisch-a.s.syriologische Studie. (Leipzig 1881.)

[See Francis Brown. OTS IV. 1-12.]

Evetts, B. A.--New Light on the Bible and the Holy Land. (London 1892.)

Gruppe, O.--Die Griechischen Kulte und Mythen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Orientalischen Religionen. (Leipzig 1887.)

Gunkel, H.--Schopfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit. (Gottingen 1895.)

[A most important discussion of the relationship of the Biblical creation narratives to the Babylonian cosmology.]

Halevy, J.--Recherches Bibliques. (Paris 1896.)

Haupt, Paul.--Wo Lag das Paradies? Ueber Land und Meer, 1894-1895, No.

15.

[Also syllabus of lectures before the Gratz College of Philadelphia, Dec 10, 1895, on 'The Site of Paradise and the Nimrod Epic.']

Jastrow, Morris, Jr.--The Bible and the a.s.syrian Monuments. The Century Magazine, XLVII. 395-411.

[Translated into French by E. Lacordaire in Revue des Revues, 1894 227-235.]

---- The Original Character of the Hebrew Sabbath. AJT II. 312-352.

[Relationship between Hebrew and Babylonian Sabbath.]

---- Adam and Eve in Babylonian Literature.

[Announced.]

Jensen, P.--The Cult of Ashera and the Cult of Mary.

[Announced to appear in the Sunday School Times, 1898.]

Kessler, K.--Ueber Gnosis und Altbabylonische Religion. 5^th ICO, II.

Part I. 288-305.

Kellner, M. L.--The Deluge in the Izdubar Epic and the Old Testament.

[Reprinted from the Church Review, November, 1888.]

Lacouperie, T. de.--Origin from Babylonia and Elam of the Early Chinese Civilization. Series of articles in the BOR III-VIII.

[Also in book form under the t.i.tle, 'Origin of Early Chinese Civilization and its Western Sources.' (London 1894.) Lacouperie's method is unsatisfactory. The theory, however, merits farther investigation.]

Lotz, W.--Quaestiones de Historia Sabbati. (Leipzig 1883.)

Lyon, D. G.--a.s.syrian Study: Its Bearing on the Old Testament. The Christian Register, 1885, Nos. 15, 16.

Menant, J.--Remarques sur un Cylindre du Musee Britannique. La Bible et les Cylindres Chaldeens. CR, 1879, 270-286.

[Discussion of a scene on a cylinder supposed to represent the first human pair and the serpent.]

Meyer, Ed.--Der Babylonische Einfluss auf Judenthum und Christenthum.

BAZ, 1894, No. 344.

Oppert, J.--Origines Communes de la Chronologie Cosmogonique des Chaldeens el des Dates de la Genese. APC, 6th series, XIII. 237-240.

Palmer, A. S.--Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs.

Tehom and Tiamat, Hades and Satan: a Comparative Study of Genesis, i., ii. (London 1897.)

Robiou, F.--L'etat Religieux de la Grece et de l'Orient au Siecle d'Alexandre ... II. Les Regions Syro-Babyloniens et l'Eran. (Paris 1896.)

[Unsatisfactory, and not based on independent researches.]

Sayce, A. H.--The Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments.

(London 1894.)

[Suggestive, but unreliable. Full of inaccuracies.]

---- Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments. (2d ed. London 1886.)

Schleussner.--Die Bedeutung der Ausgrabungen in dem Euphrat und Tigris-Gebiet fur das Alte Testament. (Wittenberg 1892.)

Schrader, E.--Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament. 3d ed.