The Seven Tablets of Creation The Enuma Elisby Leonard William King Luzac\'s Semitic text and translation series.
This epic is one of the most important sources for understanding the Babylonian worldview, centered on the supremacy of Marduk and the creation.
A duplicate copy of Tablet V has been found in Sultantepe, ancient Huzirina, near the modern town of Sanliurfa in Turkey.
Most of Tablet V has never been recovered but, aside from this lacuna, the text is almost complete.
The Enuma Elis has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Old Babylonian on Seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script.
In spite of this, however, their resemblance to the Hebrew narrative was unmistakable, and in consequence they at once appealed to a far larger circle of students than would otherwise have been the case.
It is true that the Babylonian legends which had been recovered and were first published by him were very fragmentary, and that the exact number and order of the Tablets, or sections, of which they were composed were quite uncertain; and that, although they recorded the Creation of the heavens and of the heavenly bodies, they contained no direct account of the Creation of man.
George Smith\'s work, "The Chaldean Account of Genesis," which appeared some twenty-Seven years ago, it was recognized that there was in the Babylonian account of the Creation, as it existed in the seventh century before Christ, much which invited comparison with the corresponding narrative in the Book of Genesis.
On the publication of the late Mr.
PERHAPS no section of Babylonian literature has been more generally studied than the legends which record the Creation of the world.
It was recovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), and published by George Smith in 1876.
The Enuma Elis (also spelled "Enuma Elish"), is the Babylonian Creation Mythos (named after its opening words).
The Seven Tablets of Creation The Enuma Elisby Leonard William King Luzac\'s Semitic text and translation series
