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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

the Babylonian Legends of Creation: The Legend of the Creation According to Berosus and Damascius

Babylonian Creation MythCuneiform TabletsE.A. Wallis BudgeEnuma Elish

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Versions in Greek of the Legends found by George Smith had long been known to classical scholars, owing to the preservation of fragments of them in the works of later Greek writers, e.g., Eusebius, Syncellus, and others. The most important of these is derived from the History of Babylonia, which was written in Greek by BEROSUS, a priest of Bel-Marduk, i.e., the "Lord Marduk," at Babylon, about 250 B.C. In this work Berosus reproduced all the known historical facts and traditions derived from…

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