Endnote 12 – The Genesis of Genesis

In truth, Leonard King’s Seven Tablets of Creation, or the Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of Mankind (vols. 1 and 2 [London: Luzac and Co., 1902]; see www.cwru.edu/univlib/preserve/Etana/KING.SEVENv1/KING.SEVENv1.html), published the same year as Delitzsch’s lecture, presented in even more detail what was known at the time, and integrated it into an all inclusive picture of the Bible’s dependence on Babylonian culture.