The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

Project Gutenberg's The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Morris Jastrow This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Author: Morris Jastrow Release Date: March 7, 2007 [EBook #20758] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA *** Produced by Paul Murray and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) HANDBOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS EDITED BY MORRIS JASTROW, Jr., PH.D. Professor of Semitic Languages in the University of Pennsylvania VOLUME II THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA BY MORRIS JASTROW, Jr., PH.D. (LEIPZIG) PROFESSOR OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA GINN & COMPANY BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1893 By MORRIS JASTROW, Jr. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 35.11 The Athenæum Press GINN & COMPANY · PROPRIETORS BOSTON · USA [Transcriber's Note: This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr.] TO H. B. J. MY FAITHFUL COLLABORATOR PREFACE.