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Account of the Deluge

Account of the Deluge

‎From the library of Assur-bani-pal at Ninevah (668–626 B.C.). Now in British Museum.
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‎The “Creation Series” and the “Gisdubar or Gilgamesh Series” give Babylonian and Assyrian accounts of the Creation, and the Babylonian account of the Flood, in many particulars resembling closely that given in the book of Genesis.


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