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blindness of certain nineteenth-century savants, so 

 full of their own special knowledge, yet so careless 

 of science and common sense. 



It would even seem that this distinction appeared 

 in the Chaldean Genesis as well ; for fragments of 

 what has been called a second Chaldean Genesis have 

 been found which seem to correspond with the state- 

 ments of the second chapter of Genesis. 



The following is an extract from this second 

 Chaldean or Akkadian Genesis as translated by 

 Pinches : l 



1 The glorious house, the house of the gods, in a 

 glorious place had not been made ; 



2 A plant had not been brought forth, a tree had not 

 been created ; 



3 A brick had not been laid, a beam had not been 

 shaped ; 



4 A house had not been built, a city had not been 

 constructed ; 



5 A city had not been made, a foundation had not 

 been made glorious ; 



6 Niffer had not been built, fe-kura had not been con- 

 structed ; 



7 Erech had not been built, 6-ana had not bee'h con- 

 structed ; 



8 The Abyss had not been made, 6-ridu had not been 

 constructed ; 



9 (As for) the glorious house, the house of the gods, 

 its seat had not been made 



10 The whole of the lands were sea. 



1 Expository Times, December 1892 



