Middle Eastern Mythology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Middle Eastern Mythology

Acknowledgements are due to the Princeton University Press for permission to quote from Professor J. R. Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern Texts. Relating to the Old Testament; also to the Falcon's Wing Press, Colorado, for permission to quote from Professor Noah Kramer's book, From the Tablets of Sumer; also to }he Clarendon Press for permission to use material from my book In the Beginning, and from Myth and Ritual. The footnotes will indicate my indebtedness to many other authors and sources. I have to thank my wife for careful revision of the ms.

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