Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle is Professor of Religious Studies at Wichita State University, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPart I: Introductory forays1. Approaching the subject2. “First Contact”: The Chaldean Account of GenesisPart II: Assyria, Assyriology, and the history of ancient Israel3. Assyriology in the 1870s and 80s and early responses in biblical studies4. Julius Wellhausen and the history of Israel: on its own terms or in context?Part III: Mesopotamian cosmology, myth, and Israelite religion5. Beyond source criticism and history writing: biblical studies and Assyriology in the 1890s6. Hermann Gunkel: the transformation of Babylonian myth in biblical traditions7. The Primacy of Babylon: trends in Assyriology in the 1890s to 1910s8. Babel and Bible in the German public square: Friedrich Delitzsch’s lectures9. Israel and Babylonia: the place of revelation in Assyriology and theologyPart IV: Assyriology in specific Old Testament fields10. Creation and flood in commentaries on Genesis11. Mesopotamian ritual and ancient Israelite ritual practice: Mowinckel’s Psalmenstudien12. The prophets of Duhm, Assyria, and comparative studiesPart V: Concluding ruminationsReferencesIndex

Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle is Professor of Religious Studies at Wichita State University, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPart I: Introductory forays1. Approaching the subject2. “First Contact”: The Chaldean Account of GenesisPart II: Assyria, Assyriology, and the history of ancient Israel3. Assyriology in the 1870s and 80s and early responses in biblical studies4. Julius Wellhausen and the history of Israel: on its own terms or in context?Part III: Mesopotamian cosmology, myth, and Israelite religion5. Beyond source criticism and history writing: biblical studies and Assyriology in the 1890s6. Hermann Gunkel: the transformation of Babylonian myth in biblical traditions7. The Primacy of Babylon: trends in Assyriology in the 1890s to 1910s8. Babel and Bible in the German public square: Friedrich Delitzsch’s lectures9. Israel and Babylonia: the place of revelation in Assyriology and theologyPart IV: Assyriology in specific Old Testament fields10. Creation and flood in commentaries on Genesis11. Mesopotamian ritual and ancient Israelite ritual practice: Mowinckel’s Psalmenstudien12. The prophets of Duhm, Assyria, and comparative studiesPart V: Concluding ruminationsReferencesIndex

Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle is Professor of Religious Studies at Wichita State University, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPart I: Introductory forays1. Approaching the subject2. “First Contact”: The Chaldean Account of GenesisPart II: Assyria, Assyriology, and the history of ancient Israel3. Assyriology in the 1870s and 80s and early responses in biblical studies4. Julius Wellhausen and the history of Israel: on its own terms or in context?Part III: Mesopotamian cosmology, myth, and Israelite religion5. Beyond source criticism and history writing: biblical studies and Assyriology in the 1890s6. Hermann Gunkel: the transformation of Babylonian myth in biblical traditions7. The Primacy of Babylon: trends in Assyriology in the 1890s to 1910s8. Babel and Bible in the German public square: Friedrich Delitzsch’s lectures9. Israel and Babylonia: the place of revelation in Assyriology and theologyPart IV: Assyriology in specific Old Testament fields10. Creation and flood in commentaries on Genesis11. Mesopotamian ritual and ancient Israelite ritual practice: Mowinckel’s Psalmenstudien12. The prophets of Duhm, Assyria, and comparative studiesPart V: Concluding ruminationsReferencesIndex