The Flood: The Akkadian Sources: A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion

The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on

earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian

texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions.

The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of

the myth of the Flood, namely all the cuneiform-written Akkadian sources

• from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian

periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh -, presenting them

in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied

by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary

discussion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian

sources.