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See p. 486 and Gunkel's note, Schöpfung und Chaos, p. 26. See above, p. 434. This metaphor is carried over into astronomical science. The planets are known as "wandering sheep." See p. 459. Bêl matâte. See p. 118. Similarly in another version of the contest published by Delitzsch, Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 390. See p. 54. So Bel is called in contrast to Anu. See p. 53.
See Gunkel, Schöpfung und Chaos, pp. 29-114, 119-121. Gunkel, ib. pp. 28, 29. Published by Pinches, Journal Royal Asiat. Soc., 1891, pp. 393-408. 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. Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. vi. 7. Zeits. f. Assyr. viii. 121-124.
See the passages in Jeremias' Die Babylonisch-Assyrischen Vorstellungen vom Leben nach dem Tode, p. 62. Sargon Annals, I. 156. Kosmologie, pp. 222-224. Gunkel's Schöpfung und Chaos, p. 154, note 5. In the later portions of the Old Testament, the use of Sheol is also avoided. See the passages in Schwally, Das Leben nach dem Tode nach den Vorstellungen des Alten Israels, pp. 59, 60.
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