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Contents 8 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations 14 Introduction 18 Primeval History 18 Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic 20 Part One Mesopotamian Primeval Traditions 28 Chapter One The Epic of Atrahasis 30 1.1 The Manuscripts of Atrahasis 30 1.2 Outline of the Story 36 1.2.1 The Igigu Myth 36 1.2.2 The Flood Myth 38 1.3 The Overall Structure of the Epic 42 1.3.1 Creation and Annihilation 42 1.3.2 First and Second World Order for Humans 46 1.3.3 The Confusion of the Human and the Divine 56 1.4 The Characters 77 1.4.1 The Gods 77 1.4.2 Atrahasis 82 1.5 The Noise: Conceptualizing the Story 89 1.5.1 “Noise and Din” in the Scholarly Discussion 89 1.5.2 Rigmu as a Key Word 92 Chapter Two Primeval Lists and Stories 100 2.1 The Variety of Traditions 100 2.2 The Eridu Genesis 101 2.3 Antediluvian Kings and Cities 107 2.4 Extraordinary Antediluvian Kings 116 Chapter Three The Traditions of the Apkallus 124 3.1 The Lists of the Seven Apkallus 124 3.2 Bīt Mēseri and the Adapa Myth 134 3.3 The Apkallus as Protective Spirits 146 3.4 The Apkallus as Guardians of the Cosmic Order and of the King 153 3.5 The Apkallus and the Transmission of Antediluvian Revelation 163 Chapter Four The Poem of Erra and

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Kvanvig, Helge S.

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