Nonfiction · 1906
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
A survey of Mesopotamian religion as the cuneiform tablets had revealed it by the beginning of the twentieth century: the pantheon god by god — Anu, Bel, Ea, Sin, Shamash, Ishtar, Merodach, Nergal, Nebo — with their cities, their titles and their functions; the temples and their priesthoods; the creation and flood narratives; the descent of Ishtar; the incantations and omens; and the changes the religion went through as Babylon and then Assyria rose and fell.
Theophilus G. Pinches was an Assyriologist at the British Museum who had spent his career reading the tablets themselves, and published this survey in 1906. It belongs to the generation of scholarship that first made the Mesopotamian texts available to general readers.
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