CONTENTS

CHAPTER I Assyrian Historians and their Histories
CHAPTER II The Beginnings of True History (Tiglath Pileser I)
CHAPTER III The Development of Historical Writing (Ashur nasir apal and Shalmaneser III)
CHAPTER IV Shamshi Adad and the Synchronistic History
CHAPTER V Sargon and the Modern Historical Criticism
CHAPTER VI Annals and Display Inscriptions (Sennacherib and Esarhaddon)
CHAPTER VII Ashur bani apal and Assyrian Editing
CHAPTER VIII The Babylonian Chronicle and Berossus