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to have the effect of unsettling many minds in this our genera- 

 tion, but I must say for myself that on every point at which 

 I am enabled to examine them, they have a totally different 

 efiect (cheers)." May I humbly say that it is with exactly the 

 same experience that this paper is written. Modern critics 

 analyze the story into "J" and E " documents, which some 

 unknown redacteur combined into a single whole about the 

 eighth century B.C. As separate documents they are supposed 

 to have existed a century or two earlier. The following analysis 

 of the Hebrew story is taken from Canon Driver's Introduction. 

 From the parallel column in which I have placed the Assyro- 

 Babylonian story, it will be seen that the supposed " J " and 

 " E " elements of the one appear to a remarkable degree in the 

 same order of succession as in the other. 





Hebrew Story. 





Cuneiform Stori/. 



r 

 J 



Chapter VI. 



1-8 







E 



55 5) 



9-13 



Col. 1. 



14-19 ... The gods. 







14-22 



5) 



20 to 11 9 ... Build a Snip. 



J 



VII. 



1-5 







E 



J5 5) 



6 







J 



n }5 



7-10 



Col. II. 



22-31 Collecting Cargo. 



E 



J5 >) 



11 







J 



55 )) 



12 







E 



55 5 5 



13-16a 



55 



32-34a Entering Ship. 



J 



55 55 



16i-17 



55 



345-36 Beginning of Storm. 



E 



'5 55 



18-21 





34-47 ... The Storm. 



J 



5 5 5 5 



22-23 



Col'.' III. 



1-17 Destruction of Life. 



E 



JS 55 



24 



55 



18-19 Duration of Storm. 



E 



YIIL 



l-2a 



55 



20-22ft Abating of Storm. 



J 



55 55 



26-3« 



55 



22/> ... End of Storm. 



E 



5 5 5 ? 



3/;-5 



5J 



23-34 Mountain of Nizir. 



J 



5 5 5 J 



6-12 



55 



35-41 Dove, &c., sent out. 



E 



5 5 5 5 



13ft 







J 



5 5 5 5 



13^ 







E 



5 5 5 5 



14-19 





42a . . . Leaving Ship. 



J 



55 '5 



20-22 





426-47 ... The Offerings. 



E 



IX. 



1-17 



Col." IV. 



1-35 ... The Oath. 



How are we to account for the " J " and " E " elements of the 



