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THE DISCOVERY OF THE GENESIS LEGENDS.

HE fragments of the Chaldean historian, Berosus, preserved in the works of various later writers, have shown that the Babylonians were acquainted with traditions referring to the Creation, the period before the Flood, the Deluge, and other matters forming parts of Genesis.

Berosus, however, who recorded these events, lived in the time of Alexander the Great and his successors, somewhere about 330 to 260; and, as this was three hundred years after the Jews were carried captive to Babylon, his works did not prove