Primeval Flood Catastrophe: Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Traditions

by Y.S. Chen and Chen

Book Overview

Previous research on Mesopotamian Flood traditions tended to focus on a few textual sources. How the traditions originated and developed as a whole has not been seriously investigated. By systematically examining a large body of relevant cuneiform sources of diverse genres from the Early Dynastic III period (ca. 2600-2350 B.C.) to the end of the first millennium B.C., this book observes that it is during the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600) and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198843410
• ISBN13: 9780198843412
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"