Ce of the original form of the Legend of the Fight between Ea and Apsu, and Marduk and Tiamat, and the period…
- Date of account
- Ancient material presented in a work published 1921
- Source
- The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
- Reference
- The Babylonian Legends of the Creation · selected passage 7
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English translation and study of Akkadian and Sumerian source material
- Translation
- E. A. Wallis Budge
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
ce of the original form of the Legend of the Fight between Ea and Apsu, and Marduk and Tiamat, and the period of its composition are unknown, but there is no doubt that in one form or another it persisted in Mesopotamia for thousands of years
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyce of the original form of the Legend of the Fight between Ea and Apsu, and Marduk and Tiamat, and the period of its composition are unknown, but there is no doubt that in one form or another it persisted in Mesopotamia for thousands of years. The apocryphal book of "Bel and the Dragon" shows that a form of the Legend was in existence among the Babylonian Jews long after the Captivity, and the narrative relating to it associates it with religious observances. But there is no foundation whatsoever for the assertion which has so often been made that the Two Accounts of the Creation which are given in the early chapters in Genesis are derived from the Seven Tablets of Creation described in the preceding pages. It is true that there are many points of resemblance between the narratives in cuneiform and Hebrew, and these often illustrate each other, but the fundamental conceptions of the Babylonian and Hebrew accounts are essentially different.
Historical context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyThis is a passage from a historical religious or interpretive text. Its genre, manuscript history, translation and place within its own tradition are part of the evidence and must remain visible.
Modern context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyLattice can compare the passage's descriptive features with later reports, but resemblance does not turn a vision, angel, mythic creature or sacred narrative into a modern incident report.
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