The Chaldean account of Genesis : containing the description of the creation, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom, the times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod, Babylonian fables, and legends of the gods : from the cuneiform inscriptions (1876)
Smith, George, 1840-1876 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 215
The Semitic race was already dominant in Baby-lonia two thousand years before the Christian era,and before this time there is only one conquest re-corded—that of Bal)ylonia by the Medes or Elamites,and I think it is most likely that from Elam the 188 THE IZDUBAB LEGENDS. Semites first came. The… … Migration of Eastern Tribe ; from early Babylonian Cylinder, In the Book of Genesis Elam is counted as the firstson of Shem or Semitic nation, and I think this mayindicate a knowledge, at the time that book waswritten, that the Semitic race came from this direc-tion ; they were probably driven…
