The Primeval Flood Catastrophe: Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian TraditionsPrevious research on Mesopotamian Flood traditions tended to focus on a few textual sources. How the traditions originated and developed as a whole has not been seriously investigated. By systematically examining a large body of relevant cuneiform sources of diverse genres from the Early Dynastic III period (ca. 2600 2350 B. C.) to the end of the first millennium B. C., this book observes that it is during the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000 1600) and