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Author : Wilfred G. Lambert,Alan Ralph Millard,Miguel Civil
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575060396
Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
Author : Wilfred G. Lambert,Alan R. Millard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Deluge
ISBN : 1575061848
The Babylonian flood story of Atra-hasis is of vital importance to ancient Near Eastern and biblical scholars, as well as students of history, anthropology, and comparative religion. Professors Lambert and Millard provide the reader with a detailed introduction, transliterated Akkadian with English translation, critical notes, and line drawings of the cuneiform tablets. The epic opens in a time when only the gods lived in the universe. Having decided on their established spheres of influence, the chief Mesopotamian gods--Anu, Enlil, and Enki--began their divine labors. In a joint effort, Enki and Mami (the mother goddess) engineered the creation of mankind from clay and the flesh and blood of a slain god. The remainder of the story recounts the expansion of humanity, the consequent irritation of Enki by this expansion, the attempt by Enki and Enlil to destroy humankind through a great flood, and the escape from the flood by Atra-hasis in a boat, accompanied by his possessions, family, and animals. This classic scholarly edition of the epic is once again made available as a quality Eisenbrauns reprint.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : OCLC:702996708
Author : Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : OCLC:4597828
Author : Irving Finkel
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444757071
In THE ARK BEFORE NOAH, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. A world authority on the period, Dr Finkel's enthralling real-life detective story began with a most remarkable event at the British Museum - the arrival one day in 2008 of a single, modest-sized Babylonian cuneiform tablet - the palm-sized clay rectangles on which our ancestors created the first documents. It had been brought in by a member of the public and this particular tablet proved to be of quite extraordinary importance. Not only does it date from about 1850 BC, but it is a copy of the Babylonian Story of the Flood, a myth from ancient Mesopotamia revealing among other things, instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood. But Dr Finkel's pioneering work didn't stop there. Through another series of enthralling discoveries he has been able to decode the story of the Flood in ways which offer unanticipated revelations to readers of THE ARK BEFORE NOAH.
Author : Albert T. Clay
Publisher : Book Tree
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1585092282
The word Atrahasis means extra wise and refers to the earliest known name of Noah, who built an ark and saved mankind from destruction. This is that story, from ancient Sumeria, which many scholars believe was the original from which all known flood stories came from. This was the most popular story in the ancient world and has survived for over five thousand years. It is the only one that all cultures, worldwide, seem to share. Why? Was there really a great flood? And why do we not explore the oldest known version carefully for clues? That is the purpose of this book, which also includes a number of other interesting flood story fragments and documents.
Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199538362
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 : Natan Ṿaserman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 9042941731
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.
Author : Peter T. Vogt
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825427626
In this latest addition to the Handbooks for Old Testament Exegesis series, Peter T. Vogt continues the tradition of excellence established by previous volumes. Divided into three parts, Interpreting the Pentateuch first provides an overview of the major themes of the Pentateuch. In the second part, Vogt offers resources and strategies for interpreting and understanding the first five books of the Bible by exploring its genres-law and narrative. Finally, Vogt shows that, although the Pentateuch is a collection of ancient texts, it still has contemporary significance. Vogt also includes two samples-one from law and one from narrative-of exegesis, giving students a start-to-finish example of the techniques he has illustrated for effective exegesis.
Author : Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107154957
Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.
Author : Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609976
Each of the 30 essays here delves into a topic that gives us much food for thought: the Bible as interpreted through ancient Near-Eastern creation myths, flood myths, and goddess myths; gender in the Bible; the feminist approach to Jewish law; comparative Jewish and Christian perspectives on the Hebrew Bible; biblical perspectives on ecology; creating a theology of healing; feminine God-talk. The volume concludes with the author's own original prayers in the form of poetic meditations on pregnancy and birthing. This book is unique, not only because it is the only volume in the JPS Scholar of Distinction series written by a woman, but also because Frymer-Kensky's personal and forthright voice resonates so clearly throughout each piece. Scholars and students of Bible, Jewish studies, and women's studies will surely find this to be a one-of-a kind collection.
Author : Martin Worthington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429754500
This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume argues that Ea used a ‘bitextual’ message: one which can be understood in different ways that sound the same. His message thus emerges as an ambivalent oracle in the tradition of ‘folktale prophecy’. The argument is supported by interlocking investigations of lexicography, divination, diet, figurines, social history, and religion. There are also extended discussions of Babylonian word play and ancient literary interpretation. Besides arguing for Ea’s duplicity, the book explores its implications – for narrative sophistication in Gilgamesh, for audiences and performance of the poem, and for the relation of the Gilgamesh Flood story to the versions in Atra-hasīs, the Hellenistic historian Berossos, and the Biblical Book of Genesis. Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story will interest Assyriologists, Hebrew Bible scholars and Classicists, but also students and researchers in all areas concerned with Gilgamesh, word-play, oracles, and traditions about the Flood.
Author : Maximillien De Lafayette
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781312376502
How the Babylonian Flood Became the Story of the Great Deluge in the Bible (And How Utnapishtim Became Noah). Synopsis and Translation of the Sumerian, Akkadian, and Assyrian Cuneiform Tablets. Published by Times Square Press, New York, Berlin. www.timesquarepress.com
Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520063538
Author : Richard S. Hess,David Toshio Tsumura
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0931464889