The Chaldean Account of Genesis
Author | : George Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108079016 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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 | : George Smith |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
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Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1465545638 |
Author | : Alexander Heidel |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2009-06-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 022611242X |
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 | : George Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2016-09-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781537347257 |
This book contains the description of creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, Babylonian fables and legends of the Gods. It also has chapters on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, general mythology, the Izdubar legends, the adventures of Ishtar and fragments of miscellaneous texts.
Author | : George Smith |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2004-10-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1592449670 |
In this early work of Assyriology, Smith provides his analysis of the Gilgamesh Epic as well as Enuma Elish in their relation to the Old Testament. Five years after his death, the renowned Assyriologists, A. H. Sayce revised and updated his work. The stories and myths given in the foregoing pages have, probably, very different values; some are genuine traditions--some compiled to account for natural phenomena, and some pure romances. At the head of their history and traditions the Babylonians placed an account of the creation of the world; and, although different forms of this story were current, in certain features they all agreed. Beside the account of the present animals, they related the creation of legions of monster forms which disappeared before the human epoch, and they accounted for the great problem of humanity--the presence of evil in the world--by making out that it proceeded from the original chaos, the spirit of confusion and darkness, which was the origin of all things, and which was even older than the gods. --from the Conclusion
Author | : E. A. Wallis Sir Budge |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"The Babylonian Legends of the Creation" presents the texts of the first Babylonian clay tablets presented to the scientific world in 1848. Many of the stories reflected the mythical history of creation. The authors of this book were among the pioneers of archaeology, who made the earliest attempts to see and analyze these artifacts. The presented here book covers the history of discoveries of the tablets, their contents, and comments regarding Babylonian mythology.
Author | : JoAnn Scurlock |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2013-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575068656 |
Hermann Gunkel was a scholar in the generation of the origins of Assyriology, the spectacular discovery by George Smith of fragments of the “Chaldean Genesis,” and the Babel-Bibel debate. Gunkel’s thesis, inspired by materials supplied to him by the Assyriologist Heinrich Zimmern, was to take the Chaoskampf motif of Revelation as an event that would not only occur at the end of the world but had already happened at the beginning, before Creation. In other words, in this theory, one imagines God in Genesis 1 as first having battled Rahab, Leviathan, and Yam (the forces of Chaos) in a grand battle, and only then beginning to create. The problem with Gunkel’s theory is that it did not simply identify common elements in the mythologies of the ancient Near East but imposed upon them a structure dictating the relationships between the elements, a structure that was based on inadequate knowledge and a forced interpretation of his sources. On the other hand, one is not entitled to insist that there was no cultural conversation among peoples who spent the better part of several millennia trading with, fighting, and conquering one another. Creation and Chaos attempts to address some of these issues. The contributions are organized into five sections that address various aspects of the issues raised by Gunekl’s theories.