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The " glory " of the " denizens " would correspond with the 

 expression " very good " in Genesis i. Note, however, that this is 

 a version of the gods' Creation, not Tiawath's. 



P. 171. Zliujidilii. If I have read the characters shown by the 

 half-tone blocks published by Dr. Arno Poebel (Philadelphia 

 Museum Jounialiov June, 1913) aright, this name of the Babylonian 



Noah is written with the characters ^ ^f, Zi-O-gidclii, 



" Being + day + long.*' 



Concerning him, Dr. Poebel says that he was a 2MsiSu--pnest of 

 Enki (the god Ea), daily and constantly in the service of his god. 

 To requite him for his piety, Enki tells him that, at the request of 

 Enlil (the older Bel), the gods had resolved " to destro}" the seed of 

 mankind." Zi-u-giddu thereupon — this part, however, is broken 

 away — builds a great boat and places thereon all kinds of animals. 

 The storm rages for seven days and seven nights, after which the sun 

 appears again, and when its light shines into the vessel the patriarch 

 sacrifices an ox and a sheep. In the end, Zi-ii-giddu worships 

 before Enlil, whose anger against men had now abated, for Enlil 

 says : " Life like a god I give to him ("? ti dmgira-gime munnasummu), 

 an eternal soul like a god {zi ddir dingira-rjime) I create for him." 



Immortality was therefore regarded as having been conferred 

 upon the Babylonian Xoah — possibly, also, upon his descendants. 

 Zi-u-giddu thus became " the being of everlasting day " — the gods' 

 eternity. 



P. 171. In the version which the Babylonian Noah (Ut-napisti'>i) 

 related to Gilgames, his sacrifice was of the produce of the earth. 



P. 173. It must have been from this record that Berosus obtained 

 the material for the history of the world, now lost. 



Professor Hilprecht's notes upon the list of kings will be found in 

 Tlie Bahglonian Expedition of the University of Feniisi/Ivanza, Series A : 

 Cuneiform Texts, vol. xx, part 1, p. 46, and plates 30 and XV. 



P. 174. Professor Scheil's description of the Chronological tablet 

 was published in the Coniptes Hendiis de VAcademie des Inscriptions ef 

 Belles Lettres for the year named. Mr. George Smith's paper 

 appeared in the Transactions of the Society of BibJicaJ Archaeolog)/, 

 vol. iii, p. 361 ff. (1874). 



P. 175. The dynasty of the Kassites (Cossaeans) ruled from 

 about 1780 to 1210 B.C. 



P. 175. "Prince Mastema " is one of the names of Satan in 

 Rabbinical writings. 



P. 177. If the rendering at the end of the first paragraph here 

 be correct, the seeding-plough was in use before 2000 B.C. 



P. 177. Among the new royal and other names revealed by the 

 tablets from Jokha may be mentioned Libanuk-sahas, viceroy of 

 Marhasu; Habalul, viceroy of Adab or Udab; Nisili'>'\ viceroy of 



