Atra-ḫasīs
Author: Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781575060392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
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Author: Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781575060392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
Author: Albert T. Clay
Publisher: Book Tree
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781585092284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0199538360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Helge Kvanvig
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-03-21
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9004196129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost cultures have myths of origin. The Babylonians were the first to combine blocks of traditions about primeval time into primeval histories where humans had a central role. In the first millennium there were different versions that influenced the concepts of primeval history within Jewish religion, both in the Bible and in the parallel Enochic tradition. Atrahasis and the traditions of primeval dynasties had crucial impact on Genesis; the traditions of the primeval apkallus as cosmic guardians were lying behind the Enochic Watcher Story. The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval time in these three traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other.
Author: David M. Carr
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-10-12
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 019974260X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Carr rethinks both the methods and historical orientation points for research into the growth of the Hebrew Bible into its present form.
Author: Steven Q
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-09
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 1387201794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Atrahasis Epic is one of the oldest creation and flood narratives, originally written in ancient cuneiform text and told over three tablets. This book takes the commonalities between the most well known translations and presents them in story form, as opposed to the verse format they were was originally translated into. The Epic is offered as an easy- to- read representation of both the ancient creation and flood stories synonymous with the Genesis accounts. For further understanding of the ancient Epic, the story is segmented into easily digestible sections with the addition of the author's explanations, comments and observations expressed in detailed footnotes that follow and blend with the Atrahasis story.
Author: appleton schneider
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-12-27
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1304700763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe assumed ultimate of evolution is man's mind -- which reveals itself to be a "cognitive dimension" of the universe (potentially). In that evolution has brought about a specie whose awareness is of evolution's process itself -- as part of the universal scope of knowledge, isn't "intelligent design" a somewhat unavoidable extrapolation from existence? But do we not have to realize that postulating a "guy-in-the-sky" intelligent designer is nothing but imagination or primitivism?
Author: Charles Penglase
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-10-04
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1134729308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the Mesopotamian influence on Greek mythology in literary works of the epic period, concentrating in particular on journey myths. A major contribution to the understanding of the colourful myths involved.
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0737746254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the subjects of adoption to Zoroastrianism, this encyclopedia treats readers to numerous entries on the life and times of ancient Mesopotamia. Readers will learn important terms, read biographies of central figures, and analyze brief narratives of pivotal events that transformed Mesopotamia.
Author: Marvin A. Sweeney
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1467458732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuestions of how the divine presence is understood and interacts within the world have been around since the time of the biblical prophets. The Jewish mystical tradition conceives God as active, just, powerful, and present while allowing for divine limitation so as to understand the relationship between G-d and the Jewish people in their history. Jewish Mysticism surveys Jewish visionary and mystical experience from biblical and ancient Near Eastern times through the modern period and the emergence of modern Hasidism. Marvin Sweeney provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of Jewish studies in the twenty-first century, providing an accessible overview of texts and interpretative issues. Sweeney begins with the biblical period, which most treatments of Jewish mysticism avoid, and includes chapters on the ancient Near East, the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets and Psalms, the Latter Prophets, Jewish Apocalyptic, the Heikhalot Literature, the Sefer Yetzirah and early Kabbalistic Literature, the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah and the Shabbetean Movement, and the Hasidic Movement. Placing Jewish apocalyptic literature into the larger development of ancient Jewish visionary and mystical experience, Sweeney fills gaps left by the important but outdated work of others in the field. Ideal for the scholar, student, or general reader, Jewish Mysticism provides readers with a fresh understanding of the particular challenges, problems, needs, and perspectives of Judaism throughout its history.