Note 727 — Chapter VII · THE BABYLONIAN “EVIL DAYS” AND THE SHABATTUM
Reading edition
A. H. Sayce, The Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments, London, 1895, p. 74; idem, The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, Edinburgh, 1902, p. 476; F. Delitzsch, Babel and Bible, London, 1903, p. 41. The purely conjectural character of this procedure was long ago pointed out by Francis Brown in his article, “The Sabbath in the Cuneiform Records,” Presbyterian Review, 1882, iii, 693. Compare also A. T. Clay, Amurru, Philadelphia, 1909, pp. 55 sqq.