 | Paul Carus - 1899 - 526 σελίδες
...fact the self-same word is used of this chaos in both the Biblical and Assyrian accounts — tehom, Tiamat — the only difference being that in the Assyrian...next, the creation of beasts and 'creeping things.' But the two accounts also differ in some important particulars. In the Assyrian epic the earth seems... | |
 | Francis Ernest Gigot - 1901 - 396 σελίδες
...self-same word is used of this chaos in both the Biblical and Assyrian accounts,— Tehom, Tiamat,—the only difference being that, in the Assyrian story,...next, the creation of beasts and 'creeping things.' " On the other hand, there are significant differences between the two accounts. The Babylonian story... | |
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Tiamat — the only difference being that in the Assyrian story " the deep " has become a mythological personage, the mother of a chaotic brood. The order of the creation, moreover, agrees in the two accounts ; first the light, then the creation of the... 