CONTENTS I An Ancient Hebrew Deluge Story 11 II An Ancient Fragment of the Etana Legend 33 III A Fragment of the Adapa Legend 39 IV An Early Chapter in the History of Amurru and Babylonia 42 APPENDIX Transliterations and Translations of the Deluge Stories A An Early Version of the Atra-hasis Epic 58 B A Late Redaction of the Atra-hasis Epic 61 C An Assyrian Fragment of the Atra-hasis Epic 68 D A Deluge Story in Sumerian 69 E The Deluge Story in the Gilgamesh Epic 72 F A Fragment of a Deluge Story in Babylonian 81 G Berossus' Version of the Atra-hasis Epic 82 Dynastic Lists of Early Babylonia 84 Autographed Texts Plates I-IV Heliotype Reproductions " V-VH Digitized by Google., Includes transcription and translation of Assyro-Babylonian texts, Reprint of the ed, published by Yale University Press, New Haven, which was issued as vol. V, 3 of Yale oriental series researches