The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

by Morris Jastrow

---- Articles 'Arallu' and 'Etana.'

[Announced to appear in the supplement to Roscher's 'Ausführliches Lexikon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie.']

Kiesewetter, Carl.—Der Occultismus des Alterthums. (Leipzig 1896.) Book I. 364 seq., 'Der Occultismus bei den Akkadern, Babyloniern, Chaldäern und Assyriern.'

[Based largely upon Lenormant's 'Chaldaean Magic.']

Laurent, A.—La Magie et la Divination chez les Chaldéo-Assyriens. (Paris 1894.)

Lenormant, F.—La Legende de Semiramis. (Paris 1872.)

[A transformed Ishtar legend.]

Oppert, J.—L'Immortalité de l'Âme chez les Chaldéens. (Paris 1875.)

[Translation of Ishtar's descent into the nether world.]

Pinches, T. G.—The Messianic Idea among the Early Babylonians and Assyrians. Academy, 1887, Nos. 816, 818, 820.