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Excerpt from The Doctrine of Sin in the Babylonian Religion, Vol. 1: The Use of Water in the Asipu-Ritual; Inaugural-Dissertation Christian religions, as far as these could have come under Babylonian inuence. I realize that this is not the work of a few months nor of a few years. For our knowledge of all three religions is constantly growing, and with this there must ever be the need of further investigation. In conclusion I must express my gratitude, to Prof. Meissner of Breslau, both for his incitation to this work and for suggestions and friendly encouragement during its progress, and also to Prof. Bezold of Heidelberg, for numerous suggestions and for his great kindness in reading the proof-sheets of this book. To Professors Delitzsch of Berlin and Zimmern of Leipzig, the latter, the pioneer in the study of the Babylonian religion, my thanks are also indirectly due. I beg all these gentlemen to accept these few words as token of my feeling for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.