I studied inscriptions from before the flood :  ancient Near Eastern, literary, and linguistic approaches to Genesis 1-11 / 
edited by Richard S. Hess and David Toshio Tsumura. 
 - Winona Lake, Indiana :  Eisenbrauns,  (c)1994. 
 - xvi, 480 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Sources for biblical and theological study ;  4 .
<br/><br/>One hundred fifty years of comparative studies on Genesis 1-11: an overview /  Genesis and ancient Near Eastern stories of creation and flood: an introduction /  The genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and comparative literature /  The origins of civilization according to biblical and cuneiform texts /  A new look at the Babylonian background of Genesis /  A new Babylonian "Genesis" story /  The Eridu Genesis /  Eridu, Dunnu, and Babel: a study in comparative mythology /  The double creation of mankind in Enki and Ninmah, Atrahasis I 1-351, and Genesis 1-2 /  The rivers of paradise /  King lists of the old Babylonian period and biblical genealogies /  The Old Testament genealogies in recent research /  The incantation series Bit Meseri and Enoch's ascension to heaven /  The "table of nations" (Genesis 10): its general structure and meaning /  Genesis 10: some archaeological considerations /  The name of Babylon /  In search of Nimrod /  The "Babel of tongues" : a Sumerian version /  Theme in Genesis 1-11 /  The earth in Genesis 1 /  "Male and female he created them": Genesis 1:27b in the context of the priestly account of creation /  Genesis 2:4b-3:24 : a synchronic approach /  Genesis 2-3: the theme of intimacy and alienation /  Sanctuary symbolism in the garden of Eden story /  Lamech's song to his wives (Genesis 4:23-24) /  From analysis to synthesis: the interpretation of Genesis 1-11 /  The coherence of the flood narrative /  The "tower of Babel" as a clue to the redactional structuring of the primeval history (Genesis 1:1-11:9) /  Richard S. Hess --  David Toshio Tsumura --  Richard S. Hess --  G. Castellino --  W.G. Lambert --  A.R. Millard --  Thorkild Jacobsen --  Patrik D. Miller Jr. --  Isaac M. Kikawada --  E.A. Speiser --  Abraham Malamat --  Robert R. Wilson --  Rykle Borger --  J. Simons --  D.J. Wiseman --  I.J. Gelb --  E.A. Speiser --  Samuel Noah Kramer --  D.J.A. Clines --  David Toshio Tsumura --  Phyllis A. Bird --  Jerome T. Walsh --  Alan Jon Hauser --  Gordon J. Wenham --  S. Gevirtz --  Bernhard W. Anderson --  Gordon J. Wenham --  J.M. Sasson. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780931464881 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>94037707 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Genesis, I-XI--Comparative studies.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Middle Eastern literature--Relation to the Old Testament.<br/>Myth in the Old Testament--Comparative studies.<br/>Mythology, Middle Eastern--Comparative studies.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS1235  / .I888 1994 BS1235