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Author: George Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1108079016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This revised 1880 second edition of Smith's book draws extraordinary parallels between cuneiform documents and the biblical book of Genesis.
Author: George Smith
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
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ISBN-13: 1465545638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1876
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Chaldean Account of Genesis by George Smith, first published in 1876, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author: Alan Dundes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780520063532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephanie Dalley
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0199538360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.
Author: Alexander Heidel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1949
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780226323985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. With the same careful scholarship shown in his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, Heidel interprets the famous Gilgamesh Epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament in order to determine the inherent historical relationship of Hebrew and Mesopotamian ideas.
Author: Alexander Heidel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-06-24
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 022611242X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here is a complete translation of all the published cuneiform tablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the Semitic Babylonian and the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the age and provenance of the tablets, the aim and purpose of the story, etc. Also included is a translation and discussion of two Babylonian creation versions written in Greek. The final chapter presents a detailed examination of the Babylonian creation accounts in their relation to our Old Testament literature.
Author: Natan Ṿaserman
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9789042941731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth of the Flood, namely all the cuneiform-written Akkadian sources - from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh -, presenting them in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary discussion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian sources.
