The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Part 84

RC = Revue Critique.

RHR = Revue de l'Histoire des Religions.

RIA = Royal Irish Academy.

RP = Records of the Past.

RR = Revue des Religions.

RS = Revue Semitique.

RT = Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie et a l'Archeologie Egyptiennes et a.s.syriennes.

SST = Sunday School Times.

TSBA = Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology.

TZ = Theologische Zeitblatter.

WZKM = Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes.

ZA = Zeitschrift fur a.s.syriologie.

ZATW = Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft.

ZDMG = Zeitschrift der Deutsch-Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft.

ZK = Zeitschrift fur Keilschriftforschung.

Periodicals, the volumes of which correspond to years, are quoted by the years; others, by the volumes, or by series, or by series and volumes.

Roman numerals indicate volumes, except in the case of PAOS, where they indicate pages; Arabic numerals indicate pages or plates.

I.

Excavations.--Method of Decipherment.--History of Babylonia and a.s.syria.--Origin and General Aspects of Babylonian And a.s.syrian Culture.--General Bibliography.

(_a_) _Excavations and Decipherment._

Kaulen, Fr.--a.s.syrien und Babylonien nach den neuesten Entdeckungen.

(4th ed. Freiburg 1891.)

[Popular account of excavations, method of decipherment, Babylonian literature and architecture. A work in English of this character is much to be desired. See also Hommel, F.--Geschichte Babyloniens und a.s.syriens. Berlin 1885. pp.

30-134; Evetts, B. A.--New Light on the Holy Land. London 1891.

pp. 79-129.]

(_b_) _History._

Duncker, Max.--Geschichte des Alterthums. Vols. I. and II, (5th ed.

Berlin 1878.)

[Also English translation of earlier edition.]

Hommel, F.--Geschichte Babyloniens und a.s.syriens. (Berlin 1885.)

---- Geschichte des alten Morgenlandes. (Stuttgart 1895.)

[Chapters I., IV.-VIII.]

Lenormant, Francois [and Ernest Babelon].--Histoire ancienne de l'Orient. Vol. IV. (9th ed. Paris 1885.)

Maspero, G.--The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea. (London 1894.)

---- The Struggle of the Nations: Egypt, Syria, and a.s.syria. (London 1896.)

[Replacing earlier historical works of this author.]

Meyer, Ed.--Geschichte des Alterthums. Vol. 1. (Stuttgart 1884.)

Muerdter und Delitzsch.--Kurzgefa.s.ste Geschichte Babyloniens und a.s.syriens. (2d ed. Stuttgart 1891.)

Ragozin, Z.--(1) The Story of Chaldea. (2) The Story of a.s.syria. (New York 1886-1887.)

Rawlinson, George.--The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World. Vols. I.-III. (4th ed. London 1879.)

[Antiquated, but still of some use.]

Rogers, R. W.--Outlines of the History of Early Babylonia. (Leipzig 1895.)

Schmidt, Valdemar.--a.s.syriens og Aegyptens gamle Historie. (Copenhagen 1872-1877.)

[pp. 347-461]

Tiele, C. P.--Babylonisch-a.s.syrische Geschichte. (Gotha 1886.)

[The best history that has as yet been published.]

Wachs.m.u.th, Curt.--Einleitung in das Studium der alten Geschichte.

(Leipzig 1895.)

[pp. 365-403 "Babylonier und a.s.syrier,"--indication of ancient and modern sources for the study.]

Winckler, Hugo.--Geschichte Babyloniens und a.s.syriens. (Leipzig 1892.)

(_c_) _Origin and General Aspects of Babylonian-a.s.syrian Culture._

Baumstark, A.--Babylon and Babylonia.

[In Pauly-Wissowa's Real Encyclopaedie, II. cols. 2667-2718.]

Bezold, C.--a.s.syria.

[_Ib._ II. cols. 1751-1771.]

Hommel, F.--Der Babylonische Ursprung der Aegyptischen Kultur. (Munich 1892.)

Ihering, Rudolph Von.--Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer. (Leipzig 1894.) 2tes Buch, 'Arier und Semiten,' pp. 93-305.

[A most suggestive sketch of the development and influence of Babylonian culture; also in English translation, 'The Evolution of the Aryan.' New York 1897.]