The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

by Morris Jastrow

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Corrections and Additions
3. Chapter I.—Introduction
4. Chapter II. The Land and the People
5. Chapter III. General Traits of the Old Babylonian Pantheon
6. Chapter IV. Babylonian Gods Prior to the Days of Hammurabi
7. Chapter V. The Consorts of the Gods
8. Chapter VI. Gudea's Pantheon
9. Chapter VII. Summary
10. Chapter VIII. The Pantheon in the Days of Hammurabi. Marduk
11. Chapter IX. The Gods in the Temple Lists and in the Legal and Commercial Documents
12. Chapter X. The Minor Gods in the Period of Hammurabi
13. Chapter XI. Survivals of Animism in the Babylonian Religion
14. Chapter XII. The Assyrian Pantheon
15. Chapter XIII. The Triad and the Combined Invocation of Deities
16. Chapter XIV. The Neo-Babylonian Period
17. Chapter XV. The Religious Literature of Babylonia
18. Chapter XVI. The Magical Texts
19. Chapter XVII. The Prayers and Hymns
20. Chapter XVIII. Penitential Psalms
21. Chapter XIX. Oracles and Omens
22. Chapter XX. Various Classes of Omens
23. Chapter XXI. The Cosmology of the Babylonians
24. Chapter XXII. The Zodiacal System of the Babylonians. Planets, Stars, and Calendar
25. Chapter XXIII. The Gilgamesh Epic
26. Chapter XXIV. Myths and Legends
27. Chapter XXV. The Views of Life After Death
28. Chapter XXVI. The Temples and the Cult
29. General Estimate and Influence
30. Bibliography
31. Bibliography
32. Announcements

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