RC = Revue Critique.
RHR = Revue de l"Histoire des Religions.
RIA = Royal Irish Academy.
RP = Records of the Past.
RR = Revue des Religions.
RS = Revue Semitique.
RT = Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie et a l"Archeologie Egyptiennes et a.s.syriennes.
SST = Sunday School Times.
TSBA = Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology.
TZ = Theologische Zeitblatter.
WZKM = Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes.
ZA = Zeitschrift fur a.s.syriologie.
ZATW = Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft.
ZDMG = Zeitschrift der Deutsch-Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft.
ZK = Zeitschrift fur Keilschriftforschung.
Periodicals, the volumes of which correspond to years, are quoted by the years; others, by the volumes, or by series, or by series and volumes.
Roman numerals indicate volumes, except in the case of PAOS, where they indicate pages; Arabic numerals indicate pages or plates.
I.
Excavations.--Method of Decipherment.--History of Babylonia and a.s.syria.--Origin and General Aspects of Babylonian And a.s.syrian Culture.--General Bibliography.
(_a_) _Excavations and Decipherment._
Kaulen, Fr.--a.s.syrien und Babylonien nach den neuesten Entdeckungen.
(4th ed. Freiburg 1891.)
[Popular account of excavations, method of decipherment, Babylonian literature and architecture. A work in English of this character is much to be desired. See also Hommel, F.--Geschichte Babyloniens und a.s.syriens. Berlin 1885. pp.
30-134; Evetts, B. A.--New Light on the Holy Land. London 1891.
pp. 79-129.]
(_b_) _History._
Duncker, Max.--Geschichte des Alterthums. Vols. I. and II, (5th ed.
Berlin 1878.)
[Also English translation of earlier edition.]
Hommel, F.--Geschichte Babyloniens und a.s.syriens. (Berlin 1885.)
---- Geschichte des alten Morgenlandes. (Stuttgart 1895.)
[Chapters I., IV.-VIII.]
Lenormant, Francois [and Ernest Babelon].--Histoire ancienne de l"Orient. Vol. IV. (9th ed. Paris 1885.)
Maspero, G.--The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea. (London 1894.)
---- The Struggle of the Nations: Egypt, Syria, and a.s.syria. (London 1896.)
[Replacing earlier historical works of this author.]
Meyer, Ed.--Geschichte des Alterthums. Vol. 1. (Stuttgart 1884.)
Muerdter und Delitzsch.--Kurzgefa.s.ste Geschichte Babyloniens und a.s.syriens. (2d ed. Stuttgart 1891.)
Ragozin, Z.--(1) The Story of Chaldea. (2) The Story of a.s.syria. (New York 1886-1887.)
Rawlinson, George.--The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World. Vols. I.-III. (4th ed. London 1879.)
[Antiquated, but still of some use.]
Rogers, R. W.--Outlines of the History of Early Babylonia. (Leipzig 1895.)
Schmidt, Valdemar.--a.s.syriens og Aegyptens gamle Historie. (Copenhagen 1872-1877.)
[pp. 347-461]
Tiele, C. P.--Babylonisch-a.s.syrische Geschichte. (Gotha 1886.)
[The best history that has as yet been published.]
Wachs.m.u.th, Curt.--Einleitung in das Studium der alten Geschichte.
(Leipzig 1895.)
[pp. 365-403 "Babylonier und a.s.syrier,"--indication of ancient and modern sources for the study.]
Winckler, Hugo.--Geschichte Babyloniens und a.s.syriens. (Leipzig 1892.)
(_c_) _Origin and General Aspects of Babylonian-a.s.syrian Culture._
Baumstark, A.--Babylon and Babylonia.
[In Pauly-Wissowa"s Real Encyclopaedie, II. cols. 2667-2718.]
Bezold, C.--a.s.syria.
[_Ib._ II. cols. 1751-1771.]
Hommel, F.--Der Babylonische Ursprung der Aegyptischen Kultur. (Munich 1892.)
Ihering, Rudolph Von.--Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer. (Leipzig 1894.) 2tes Buch, "Arier und Semiten," pp. 93-305.
[A most suggestive sketch of the development and influence of Babylonian culture; also in English translation, "The Evolution of the Aryan." New York 1897.]