Israel and Babylon

Gunkel (1862-1932) succeeded Carl Cornhill in 1920 in the coveted Chair of Old Testament at the University of Halle. This book is the opening section of his monumental 'Commentary on Genesis'.

• List of IllustrationsForeword by K.C. HansonAbbreviations1. Delitzsch, Babylon, and the Bible2. The Broad Reach of Babylonian Civilization3. Babylonian Influences and Delitzsch's Misinterpretations4. Babylonian Influences on Israelite Culture5. Babylonian Influences on Israelite Religion6. Revelation in IsraelBibliographyIndex of Ancient DocumentsIndex of Ancient NamesIndex of Authors

Hermann Gunkel was one of the 'greats' of modern Biblical scholarship ... Written in the context of the famous 'Babel-Bible' debate of the beginning of the twentieth century, this book, in a lively, even passionate way, raises some important questions about how to compare cultures and assess their relationships to each other - questions that have not lost their value more than a century later. We must be grateful, therefore, to K.C. Hanson for bringing Gunkel's book back into print in a revised translation with helpful introduction, notes, and up-dated bibliography.