Note 17 — THE DESCENT INTO HADES.

For further details see Dr. Alfred Jeremias, who publishes the text of the passages here quoted and offers a literal German translation with editorial notes and other explanations. The conception of the document as set forth in the quoted passages is based upon the interpolation of Dr. Jeremias, which he justifies in his critical notes. Dr. Jeremias’s interpretation of the concluding words is justified by another cuneiform tablet which while relating a conjuration of the dead begins with the same description of Sheol as does the legend of Istar’s descent to Hell.