Enuma Elish (2 Volumes in One): The Seven Tablets of Creation; The Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of Mankind
by L W King M.A. F.S.A., Leonard W King
Complete edition of the seven-tablet Babylonian creation epic together with related Assyrian legends, offering the earliest known Mesopotamian account of the origins of the world and humanity.
About This Book
This volume presents the complete text of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic preserved on seven cuneiform tablets.
It includes both the Babylonian and Assyrian versions of the legends concerning the creation of the world and of mankind.
The work is accompanied by transliterations, translations, and commentary prepared by Assyriologist L. W. King.
Readers gain direct access to one of the oldest known accounts of cosmic origins from ancient Mesopotamia.
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