PREFACE.
In my studies I have consulted the following works, which will be found useful to the student of Genesis:
Davidson's Introduction to the Old Testament, and Apocrypha; Keil, Manual of Introduction to the Old Testament; Kuenen's Religion of Israel, and Bible for Learners; Colenso on the Pentateuch; Bleck, Introduction to the Old Testament; Samuel Sharpe, History of the Hebrew Nation and Literature; Haverick, Introduction to the Old Testament; A. Geiger, Urschrift u. Uebers. der Bibel; Goldziher, Mythology among the Hebrews; George Smith, Chaldean Account of Genesis, with explanation and continuation by Frederick Delitzsch, (German); Cory's Ancient Fragments; H. C. Rawlinson, Essay on the Early History of Babylonia, in Geo. Rawlinson's Herodotus, Vol. I.; J. G. von Herder, Aelteste Urkunde des Menschengeschlechtes, and the same, Ideen zur Pholosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit; Matthew Arnold, Gold and the Bible. For mythological facts the works of Spiegel, Simrock, Max Müller and others have been used. In this place I take pleasure in acknowledging my indebtedness to the original labors of Professor Adolf Duschak, an accomplished Hebrew scholar, and my teacher in the language.
I may give here a brief notice of the historical distribution of the Semitic langauges. To the north their boundaries were the Armenian Mountains, and a line drawn through the middle of
