[681] Gunkel, ib. pp. 28, 29. What Sayce (e.g., Rec. of the Past, N. S., I. 147, 148) calls the 'Cuthaean legend of the creation' contains, similarly, a variant description of Tiâmat and her brood.
[682] Published by Pinches, Journal Royal Asiat. Soc., 1891, pp. 393-408.
[683] Complete publication by Delitzsch, Das Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos (Leipzig, 1896) with elaborate commentary.
[684] See Zimmern in Gunkel's Schöpfung und Chaos, pp. 415, 416, and on the other side, Delitzsch, Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 20. Zimmern's doubts are justified.
[685] Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. vi. 7.
[686] Zeits. f. Assyr. viii. 121-124. Delitzsch, in his Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, pp. 61-68, has elaborately set forth the principles of the poetic composition. See also D. H. Mueller, Die Propheten in ihrer ursprünglichen Form, pp. 5-14.
[687] I.e., did not exist. To be 'called' or to 'bear a name' meant to be called into existence.
[688] I.e., of the waters.
[689] I.e., of heaven and earth.
[690] The word used is obscure. Jensen and Zimmern render "reed." Delitzsch, I think, comes nearer the real meaning with "marsh." See Haupt's translation, Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc., 1896, p. 161.