The Babylonian Story of the Deluge

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge

Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum (1857-1934)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- THE DISCOVERY OF THE TABLETS AT NINEVEH BY LAYARD, RASSAM AND SMITH

-03- THE WALLS AND PALACES OF NINEVEH

-04- DISCOVERY OF THE LIBRARY OF THE TEMPLE OF NEBO AT NINEVEH

-05- NEBO AND HIS LIBRARY AT NINEVEH

-06- DISCOVERY OF THE PALACE LIBRARY OF ASHUR-BANI-PAL

-07- ASHUR-BANI-PAL, BOOK-COLLECTOR AND PATRON OF LEARNING

-08- GEORGE SMITH'S DISCOVERY OF THE EPIC OF GILGAMISH AND THE STORY OF THE DELUGE

-09- THE LEGEND OF THE DELUGE IN BABYLONIA

-10- THE LEGEND OF THE DELUGE ACCORDING TO BEROSUS

-11- THE BABYLONIAN LEGEND OF THE DELUGE AS TOLD TO THE HERO GILGAMISH BY HIS ANCESTOR UTA-NAPISHTIM, WHO HAD BEEN MADE IMMORTAL BY THE GODS

-12- THE EPIC OF GILGAMISH

-13- THE FIRST TABLET

-14- THE SECOND TABLET

-15- THE THIRD TABLET

-16- THE FOURTH TABLET

-17- THE FIFTH TABLET

-18- THE SIXTH TABLET

-19- THE SEVENTH TABLET

-20- THE EIGHTH TABLET

-21- THE NINTH TABLET

-22- THE TENTH TABLET

-23- THE ELEVENTH TABLET

-24- THE TWELFTH TABLET

-25- NOTE

-26- FOOTNOTES