Note 900 — Chapter XXX · NO ROD, ALTHOUGH CLOSE INTERCOURSE WITH EGYPT
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The Babylonian legend of Adapa is thus known to have circulated in Palestine and Egypt before the Hebrew Exodus. The story of Adapa is thought by some to have influenced the Hebrew version of the story of Adam and Eve and the loss of Paradise. See the excellent discussion in T. Skinner, Genesis (in the International Critical Commentary (1912), p. 91 ff), and Langdon, The Sumerian Epic of Paradise (University of Pennsylvania, Publications of the Babylonia Section, 1915), vol. X., pp. 38-49.