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E. Unger, Assyrische und babylonische Kunst (Breslau, 1927, 62–63) Cambridge Ancient History, Vol II, Part 2 (3rd ed. 1975) 446, 482–88, esp. 486.

See Anne Kilmer, “The Mesopotamian Concept of Overpopulation and Its Solution as Represented in the Mythology”, Orientalia 41, pp. 160–177 (1972), and William J. Moran, “The Babylonian Story of the Flood (review article)”, Biblica 40, pp. 51–61 (1971), who working independently, also demonstrated that the problem which concerned the Babylonian gods was overpopulation.

Most recently edited by Miguel Civil in Lambert and Millard, Atrahasis: the Babylonian Story of the Flood, Oxford, 1969.

W. G. Lambert and A. R. Millard, Atrahasis: the Babylonian Story of the Flood, Oxford, 1969.

Cuneiform Texts From the British Museum, London (1965).

J. Laessoe, “The Atrahasis Epic, A Babylonian History of Mankind”, Biblioteca Orientalia 13, pp. 90–102 (1956).

In die dominica Paschae homilia CCL 78, 550, 1, 52; the same in Justin Martyr, I Apology 67; Eusebius, Commentaria in Psalmos 91, PG 23, 1169–1172; Maximus of Turin, Homilia 61, PL 57, 371; Augustine, Sermo 226, PL 38, 1099.

That the day of Saturn was originally the first day of the week is clearly evidenced by the Indices Nundinarii and by the mural inscriptions found in Pompeii and Herculaneum where the days of the week are given horizontally starting with the day of Saturn. For a source collection see: A. Degrassi, Inscriptiones Italiae (Rome Libreria Dello Stato, 1963) XIII 49, 52, 53, 55, 56.

That primitive Christians prayed toward Jerusalem is evidenced by the Judeo-Christian sect of the Ebionites, who according to Irenaeus, “prayed toward Jerusalem as if it were the house of God” (Adversus haereses 1, 26). For references on the eastward orientation, see for instance, Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 7, 7, 43; Origen De oratione 32; Apostolic Constitutions 2, 57, 2 and 14; Hippolytus, De Antichristo 59.