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CONTENTS

CHAP.		Page
	INTRODUCTION	xxi
I.	THE RACES AND EARLY CIVILIZATION OF BABYLONIA	1
II.	THE LAND OF RIVERS AND THE GOD OF THE DEEP	21
III.	RIVAL PANTHEONS AND REPRESENTATIVE DEITIES	40
IV.	DEMONS, FAIRIES, AND GHOSTS	59
V.	MYTHS OF TAMMUZ AND ISHTAR	81
VI.	WARS OF THE CITY STATES OF SUMER AND AKKAD	109
VII.	CREATION LEGEND: MERODACH THE DRAGON SLAYER	138
VIII.	DEIFIED HEROES: ETANA AND GILGAMESH	163
IX.	DELUGE LEGEND, THE ISLAND OF THE BLESSED, AND HADES	190
X.	BUILDINGS AND LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF BABYLON	217
XI.	THE GOLDEN AGE OF BABYLONIA	240
XII.	RISE OF THE HITTITES, MITANNIANS, KASSITES, HYKSOS, AND ASSYRIANS	260
XIII.	ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY	287
XIV.	ASHUR THE NATIONAL GOD OF ASSYRIA	326
XV.	CONFLICTS FOR TRADE AND SUPREMACY	356
XVI.	RACE MOVEMENTS THAT SHATTERED EMPIRES	376
XVII.	THE HEBREWS IN ASSYRIAN HISTORY	394
XVIII.	THE AGE OF SEMIRAMIS	417
XIX.	ASSYRIA'S AGE OF SPLENDOUR	444
XX.	THE LAST DAYS OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA	477
	INDEX	501

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