Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Primeval History; Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic; Part One Mesopotamian Primeval Traditions; Chapter One The Epic of Atrahasis; Chapter Two Primeval Lists and Stories; Chapter Three The Traditions of the Apkallus; Chapter Four The Poem of Erra and the Disruption of Cosmic Stability; Chapter Five Concluding Remarks; Part Two The Primeval History in Genesis; Chapter One The Sources of the Primeval History; Chapter Two The Overall Composition of Genesis; Chapter Three The Theology of the Priestly Source
Summary
The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval history in Babylonia, in the Hebrew Bible and the parallel Enochic traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other
