50 BABYLONIAN LITERATtJRE. 



" These two nations (the Canaanites and 

 the Chaldaeans) are descended from two 

 brothers, both sons of Adam, and of the 

 same mother, one of the wives of Adam ; 

 for Adam, according to those skilled in 

 genealogy, had sixty-four children, of whom 

 twenty-two were daughters and forty-two 

 sons. These forty-two sons left eighty heirs. 

 The others had no posterity which has de- 

 scended to our times." In a third passage 1 

 the question is again as to the nations which 

 were the posterity of the children of Adam 

 and as to those which were not descended 

 from them. 2 



This direct form is not the only one under 

 which the Biblical or apocryphal traditions 

 of the Hebrews seem to have found their 



1 Page 61. See Ewald, Jahrbiicher der Biblischen Wiss. 1857, 

 p. 153. The name of Adam appears to have heen known among the 

 Babylonians and the Phoenicians (See Mem. de 1'Acad. t. xxiii. 

 2nd part, pp. 267, 268 ; Hippolyti (lit aiunt) Eefutationes Haeresium, 

 Duncker et Schneidewin), p. 136; But the particulars cited here 

 are evidently Biblical. 



2 In the book of Tenk elfish a. which Dr. Chwolson believes much 

 more modern than the Agriculture, but which, in my opinion, is 

 of the same school, Cain, son of Adam, is also made to figure 

 (pp. 142, 143). In the same book, there is mention of the 

 Cherubins (ibid). 



