The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Part 88

Religious Texts.

_Hymns, Incantations, Omens, Oracles, Prayers, Legends, Myths, Votive Texts._

Ball, C. J.--A Bilingual Hymn (IVR 46, 5-19) PSBA XV. 51-54.

---- A Babylonian Ritual Text. JRAS, 1892, 841-853.

Banks, E. J.--Sumerisch-Babylonische Hymnen der von George Reisner herausgegebenen Sammlung, umschrieben, ubersetzt und erklart. (Breslau 1897.)

Barton, G. A.--Esarhaddon's Account of the Restoration of Ishtar's Temple at Erech. PAOS, May 1891, cx.x.x.-cx.x.xii.

Bertin, G.--Akkadian Hymn to the Setting Sun. RP, new series, II.

190-193.

Bezold, C.--Remarks on Some Unpublished Cuneiform Syllabaries with Respect to Prayers and Incantations written in Interlinear Form. PSBA X.

418-423.

---- Translation and a.n.a.lysis of a Hymn to the Sun-G.o.d (Sp III.). RA I.

157-161.

Boissier, Alfred.--Deux Doc.u.ments a.s.syriens relatifs aux Presages. RS I.

63-70, 168-172.

---- Doc.u.ments a.s.syriens relatifs aux Presages.

[Vols. I. and II., Paris 1894-1897. Vol. III. announced.]

---- Notes d'a.s.syriologie. RS VI. 143-151.

[Two texts--a Prayer and an Incantation.]

Boscawen, W. St. Chad.--The Babylonian Legend of the Serpent Tempter.

BOR IV. 251-255.

---- Babylonian Teraphim. BOR I. 39, 40.

---- The Legend of the Tower of Babel. RP III. 129-132; also in the TSBA V. 303-312.

[The interpretation is erroneous.]

Brunnow, R.--a.s.syrian Hymns. ZA IV. 1-40, 225-258; V. 55-80.

[Hymns to Shamash, Marduk, and Ishtar.]

Budge, Ernest A.--a.s.syrian Incantations to Fire and Water. RP XI.

133-138; also in TSBA VI. 420-435.

Craig, Jas. A.--Prayer of the a.s.syrian King Ashurbanipal. H X. 75-87.

---- a.s.syrian and Babylonian Religious Texts, Vols. I. and II. (Leipzig 1895-1897.) AB XIII.

[Announces also volumes of texts (1) Prayers to Shamash and Ramman, and (2) Series 'Illumination of Bel.']

---- K 69 (a hymn). ZA XI. 276.

---- An a.s.syrian Incantation to the G.o.d Sin, cir. 650 B.C. H XI.

101-109.

Delattre, A. J.--The Oracles Given in Favor of Esarhaddon. RP, new series, III. 25-31; see also BOR III. 25-31.

Delitzsch, Friedrich.--Babylonisch-a.s.syrisches Psalmbuch.

[Announced to appear in the 'Abhandlungen der koniglichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.']

---- a.s.syrische Lesestucke. (Leipzig 1885. 3d ed.)

[Contains a selection of religious texts as follows: pp. 93-99, Creation tablets; 99-104, Deluge episode; 117, 118, Oracle to Esarhaddon; 130-132, Incantations; 134-136, Hymn to Ishtar.]

Evetts, B. T. A.--An a.s.syrian Religious Text. PSBA X. 478, 479 and two plates.

[Apparently a royal prayer.]

Halevy, J.--a.s.syrian Fragments. RP XI. 157-162.

[Part of a hymn, of a penitential psalm, etc.]

---- Doc.u.ments religieux de l'a.s.syrie et de la Babylonie. (Paris 1882.)

---- Textes religieux Babyloniens en double Redaction. RS IV. 150-160, 245-251, 344-348.

---- 'Les Inscriptions peints de Citium' in 'Melanges de Critique et d'Histoire,' pp. 165-196.

[Translation in large part and discussion of Ishtar's descent into the nether world.]

Harper, Edward T.--Die Babylonischen Legenden von Etana, Zu, Adapa und Dibbarra. BA II. 390-521.

[See also Academy 1891, No. 976.]

Haupt, Paul.--Akkadische und Sumerische Keilschrifttexte. (Leipzig 1881-1882.)

[Contains pp. 75-79, 82-106 Incantations; 79, 115-131 Hymns and Psalms.]

Jastrow, Morris, Jr.--A fragment of the Babylonian "Dibbarra" Epic.

Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in Philology, Literature, and Archaeology, Vol. 1., No. 2. (Boston 1891.)

---- A new Fragment of the Babylonian Etana Legend. BA III. 363-384.

Jensen, P.--De Incantamentorum Sumerico-a.s.syrorum seriei quae dicitur "surbu" Tabula VI. ZK I. 279-322; II. 15-61; also 306-311, 416-425.