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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

Before CHAPTER XXV.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Jastrow, Morris

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[1093] My rendering is given in continuous lines. The legend is in narrative, not in poetic form.
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[1096] Neither Delitzsch's suggestion 'god of dwellings' nor Harper's 'god thou art strong' is acceptable.
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[1102] Of the eighth century. See Harper, ib. p. 424.
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[1104] Anu, it will be recalled, utters the same cry. See p. 546.
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[1105] Referring to his garments of mourning.
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[1107] I follow Zimmern's rendition of the line.
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[1108]Schöpfung und Chaos, pp. 168 seq.
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[1110] The phrase 'knowledge of good and evil' (Gen. ii. 17) is simply an expression equivalent to our 'everything,' or to the Babylonian 'secrets of heaven and earth.'
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[1111] See pp. 476 seq. Sayce has even gone so far as to suggest an identification of Adapa (by reading Adawa) with the Biblical Adam, but this conjecture is untenable.

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FOOTNOTES: THE VIEWS OF LIFE AFTER DEATH.