BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

510 Pages·2007·54.27 MB·English

THE SACRED BOOKS AND
EARLY LITERATURE OF
THE EAST
WITH HISTORICAL SURVEYS OF THE CHIEF
WRITINGS OF EACH NATION
Translations, Bibliographies, etc., by the following
Leading Orientalists:
AMERICA:
IN
MORRIS JASTROW,LL.D., Professor of SemiticLanguages, University of Penn-
sylvania; JAMES H. BREASTED, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University of
Chicago; CHARLES C. TORREY, D.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, Yale
University; A. V. W. JACKSON, LL.D., Professor of Indo-Iranian, Columbia Uni-
versity; CHARLES R. LANMAN,LL.D., ProfessorofSanskrit, HarvardUniversity;
REV. CHARLES F. AIKEN, S.T.D., Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Catholic
University; FRIEDRICH HIRTH, L'L.D., Professor of Chinese, Columbia, Uni-
versity; REV. WILLIAM E. GRIFFIS, D.D., former Professor at the Imperial
University, Tokio.
IN EUROPE:
E. A. W. BUDGE, F.S.A., Director of Egyptology in the British Museum; SIR
GASTON MASPERO,D.C.L.,MemberoftheRoyal InstituteofFrance; REV.A. H.
SAYCE, LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford University; W.
FLINDERS-PETRIE, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology,University College,London;
STEPHEN LANGDON, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, Oxford University; SIR
.ERNEST SATOW, LL.D., G.C.M.G., BritishMinistertoJapan; H. OLDENBERG,
LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Kiel University; T. W. RHYS-DAVIDS, LL.D.,
Librarianof the Royal Asiatic Society; ARMINIUS VAMBERY, LL.D., Professor
ofOrientalLanguages,UniversityofBudapest.
IN ASIA:
SIR M. COOMARA SWAMY, Legislative CouncilofCeylon;ROMESH CHUNDER
DUTT, C.I.E., Author of the History of Civilization in Ancient India; DARAB
D. P. SANJANA, Educational Society of Bombay; VISCOUNT KENCHO SUYE-
MHeAaTdSMUas,tLeLr.oMf.t,hJeapSacnheooslesMoifnisAtnejrumoafn-tih-eIsIlnatmer;ioRr;ALSPHHEITK. GFRAIIFZF-IUTLHL,AHP-reBsHiAdeIn,t
Benares College, India; JIVANJI JAMSHEDJI MODI, Fellow of Bombay Uni-
versity, OfficierdeI'AcadgmieFrancaise.
Under the editorship of a staff of specialists directed by
PBOF. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.
AND
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Copyright, 1917,
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