The interconnected influences of different traditions of ancient
mythology on one another consumed the archaeological efforts of the
late 19th and early 20th century, though much work in Britain and
Europe was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. This
fascinating 1918 study-adapted from a series of lectures delivered
to the British Academy in 1916 rings with the frustration of its
British author. A renowned classical scholar, King incorporates the
then latest research from American academics into his intriguing
analysis of the impact of Babylonian and Egyptian mythology on the
foundations of Judaism. Drawing on newly discovered
five-thousand-year-old texts, he weaves a narrative of the folklore
of human origins unbroken from our earliest collective memories.
His comparison of the creation and deluge stories from a range of
ancient Old World civilizations remains compelling today. British
classical scholar LEONARD W. KING (1869-1919) was Assistant Keeper
of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and
professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at the University
of London, King's College. He also wrote Babylonian Magic and
Sorcery (1896) and A History of Sumer and Akkad (1910).
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