NOTE
FOREWORD
CONTENTS
Division I THE HEBREW HYMNS OF PRAISE
Chapter I HEBREW PSALMS WHICH ARE NOT HYMNS
Chapter II HEBREW SANCTUARY HYMNS OF PRAISE
Chapter III HEBREW ESCHATOLOGICAL HYMNS
Chapter IV HEBREW NATURE HYMNS
Chapter V HEBREW HYMNS IN PRAISE OF SACRED INSTITUTIONS
Division II ASSYRIAN HYMNS OF PRAISE
Chapter VI ASSYRIAN HYMNAL INTRODUCTIONS TO PRAYERS
Chapter VII ASSYRIAN ANTIPHONAL HYMNS
Chapter VIII ASSYRIAN SELF-LAUDATIONS OF THE GODS
Division III A COMPARISON OF THE ASSYRIAN AND THE HEBREW HYMNS
Chapter IX THE LITERARY FORM OF THE ASSYRIAN AND THE HEBREW HYMNS
Chapter X THE SUPREME GOD AMONG THE GODS
Chapter XI THE SUPREME GOD IN HIS DWELLING PLACE
Chapter XII THE SUPREME GOD AS CREATOR
Chapter XIII THE SUPREME GOD AS WISE, POWERFUL, MERCIFUL
Chapter XIV THE SUPREME GOD AS KING AND JUDGE
Chapter XV CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS OF ASSYRIAN HYMNS Hymns to Shamash
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOOTNOTES
INDEXES
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
BY CHARLES GORDON CUMMING
AMS PRESS, INC. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10003 1966
Copyright 1934 Columbia University Press
Reprinted with the permission of the original publisher
Manufactured in the United States of America
GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO RICHARD J. H. GOTTHEIL
