Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings. By L. W. King. 2
vols. (Luzac and Co. 8s. 6d. net per vol.)—These twq volumes belong to the series "Studies in Eastern History." In the first we have introductory and explanatory chapters ; iji the second the actual texts and their translation. Mr. King is confident that recent discoveries have improved the position of the Hebrew chronology. One important fact is that the Second Dynasty (so-called) of Babylonians reigned contemporaneously with the First and Third in a different region. This reduces the period that has to be assigned to Hammurabi by several hundred years. He is now supposed to belong to the twentieth century B.C. This synchronises with the date of 1921 for the call of Abraham, and makes it possible to identify Hammurabi with the Amraphel of Genesis xiv., a conjecture which is not opposed by linguistic considerations.
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