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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

the Babylonian Legends of Creation: Publication of the Creation Tablets

Babylonian Creation MythCuneiform TabletsE.A. Wallis BudgeEnuma Elish

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The publication of the above-mentioned texts and translations proved beyond all doubt the correctness of Rawlinson's assertion made in 1865, that "certain portions of the Babylonian and Assyrian Legends of the Creation resembled passages in the early chapters of the Book of Genesis." During the next twenty years, the Creation texts were copied and recopied by many Assyriologists, but no publication appeared in which all the material available for reconstructing the Legend was given in a…

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