The Chaldean Account Of Genesis
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (679 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1300025646 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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George Smith's The Chaldean Account of Genesis (1876) is one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the development of Near Eastern myth cycles ever published. This volume delivered to a shocked Victorian audience the first reports of the Babylonian Flood legend, of the Epic of Gilgamesh (then known as Izdubar), and the uncanny parallels between the Hebrew Bible and the myths and legends of Babylon. This edition is an unabridged republication of the 1876 first edition of this important work, which highlights George Smith's astonishing scholarship and the amazing amount of information Smith was able to collect and publish in the first years after their discovery. It is astounding just how
Joseph Humber said A disappointment. Not at all what I expected. A good portion of the book is a listing of what can be read from the existing tablets, and amounts to page after page of fragments so incomplete they might as well be random words. There was very little about the origins of the world creation legends.. great so far I have not yet finished this book but I am more than satisfied with it so far. It amazes me some of the things that archeologists wrote earlier in the development of their "field". Today many of them are bright but their ideas are constricted by a group think mindset that confines them to the status quo. "This book is rich in historical information" according to Amazon Customer. This is an excellent read. Ive read several other books that have the most recent translations of the tablets the author discusses and it is quite interesting to read the authors initial findings while having the knowledge of the most recent translations in my mind. It is fascinating to read the authors thoughts on the subjects and information on how and where the tablets were found.
About the Author George Smith (1840 – 1876), was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and the Epic of Gilgamish. In 1872, Smith achieved worldwide fame by his translation of the Chaldaean account of the Great Flood, which he read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology on December 3 and whose audience included the Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. As early as 1861, he was working evenings sorting and cleaning the mass of friable fragments of clay cylinders and tablets in the Museum's storage rooms. From his youth, he was fascinated with Assyrian culture and his
His natural talent for cuneiform studies was first noticed by Samuel Birch, Egyptologist and Direct of the Department of Antiquities, who brought the young man to the attention of the renowned Assyriologist Sir Henry Rawlinson. In 1872, Smith achieved worldwide fame by his translation of the Chaldaean account of the Great Flood, which he read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology on December 3 and whose audience inclu