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Book The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story and the Temple Library of Nippur

Download or read book The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story and the Temple Library of Nippur written by Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht and published by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology. This book was released on 1910 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania written by University of Pennsylvania. Babylonian Expedition and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania written by Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Babel and Bible

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  • Author : Friedrich Delitszch
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2004-05-19
  • ISBN : 1592447082
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Babel and Bible written by Friedrich Delitszch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-05-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes two lectures given by Friedrich Delitzsch to the members of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft and Kaiser Wilhelm II. These lectures deal with the relationship of Babylonian sources to the Old Testament, and they created a major controversy.

Book The Chaldean Account of Genesis

Download or read book The Chaldean Account of Genesis written by George Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Puritans in Babylon

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  • Author : Bruce Kuklick
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-12-04
  • ISBN : 0691193959
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Puritans in Babylon written by Bruce Kuklick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the academic fields that give us our knowledge of the ancient Near East. Bruce Kuklick's new book begins with the story of the initial adventure of these determined investigators--a twelve-year dig near the Biblical Babylon, at Nippur, conducted at intervals from 1888 through 1900 and bankrolled by the Babylonian Exploration Fund. To unearth tens of thousands of cunneiform tablets, the leaders of this venture faced harsh living conditions in the desert and an academic war of each against all that was quickly begun at the site itself. As their knowledge increased, they risked their personal religious beliefs in the search for historical truth. Kuklick discusses their tribulations to illuminate two other contemporary developments: first, the maturation of the American university, particularly in contrast to its German counterpart; and second, the influence of religious-secular conflict on the ways in which Western scholarship appropriated or appreciated other cultures. The Nippur expedition spawned unseemly (and entertaining) fights among the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, and Chicago for leadership in the study of ancient Near East--not to mention disagreements with their own developing museums and an international scandal called the Hilprecht controversy. More significant than these quarrels was the concern for the meaning of history displayed in this period of Near Eastern scholarship. The field was linked to Biblical criticism and Judeo-Christian interests, and many of the orientalists originally possessed strong religious commitments--which some put aside as they struggled for objectivity. As recent critics have shown, "orientalism" was an example of the West's ability to appropriate the "other" for its own purposes. However, Kuklick's study demonstrates that the censure of orientalism hinges on modes of argumentation that scholars of the ancienet Near East helped to legitimate, and at no small cost to themselves. Bruce Kuklick is Killbrew Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are To Every Thing a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976 (Princeton), Churchmen and Philosophers: Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey, and The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge Massachusetts, 1860-1930. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Ancient History  a Revised Chronology

Download or read book Ancient History a Revised Chronology written by Anthony Lyle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a culmination of that research. After trashing his work 10 times and starting over, he managed to get a revised chronology that seemed to be more accurate than that being put out by the status quo universities. It combines secular / world history with Biblical history in a far more even and smoother match than that proposed by former historians who have attempted the same. This is his version 12, which doesnt try to match different histories based on dates, but rather by matching people and events and then applying revised dates to those events and people. This work will call into question the conclusions of historians of the last 200 years, about the ancient periods of time, and provide an alternative dating for those times. It is a World History in that it incorporates the ancient history of India, China, Japan, as well as the traditional Middle Eastern and European societies of ancient times. It re-evaluates the beginnings of civilization and the solar system, refuting common historical and scienti?? c beliefs of the modern world. Documents that have previously been written off as Mythology have been re-evaluated as well, as they give a different perspective of ancient times and what happened back then. The use and creation of calendars is an important feature added to this work which is seldom taken into account by modern histories. Incorporated in this work are many of the more recent archaeological ?? nds that have yet to be incorporated in status quo works and institutions. He makes no apology for the fact that this is Biblically based, and the conclusions that have been reached by this work ?? t very well in Biblical contexts and adds some understanding to the events that took place in the Biblical narratives.

Book Scientific American

Download or read book Scientific American written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.

Book Old Babylonian Period  2003 1595 BC

Download or read book Old Babylonian Period 2003 1595 BC written by Douglas Frayne and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short introduction for each inscription gives its general contents, place of origin, and relative dating. Also included are a detailed catalogue of exemplars, a brief commentary, bibliography, and text in transliteration facing an English translation.

Book Records of the Past

Download or read book Records of the Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading and Writing in Babylon

Download or read book Reading and Writing in Babylon written by Dominique Charpin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how hundreds of thousands of clay tablets testify to the history of an ancient society that communicated broadly through letters to gods, insightful commentary, and sales receipts. This book includes many passages, offered in translation, that allow readers an illuminating glimpse into the lives of Babylonians.

Book The Expository Times

Download or read book The Expository Times written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ark Before Noah  Decoding the Story of the Flood

Download or read book The Ark Before Noah Decoding the Story of the Flood written by Irving Finkel and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Alfred Loisy and Modern Biblical Studies

Download or read book Alfred Loisy and Modern Biblical Studies written by Jeffrey L. Morrow and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Catholic priest and biblical scholar Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) was at the heart of the Roman Catholic Modernist crisis in the early part of the twentieth century. He saw much of his work as an attempt to bring John Henry Newman’s notion of development of doctrine into the realm of Catholic biblical studies, and thereby transform Catholic theology. This volume situates Loisy’s better known works on the New Testament and theology in the context of his lesser known work in Assyriology and Old Testament studies. His early training in Assyriology taught Loisy a comparative historical approach to studying ancient texts, in addition to providing him the requisite training in ancient Near Eastern languages and literature. Loisy built upon this Assyriological foundation with his historical critical work in biblical studies, first in the Old Testament. In his biblical scholarship, Loisy combined the then current trends of historical biblical criticism with his more comparative approach. Prior to his excommunication in 1908, Loisy attempted in his more popular writings to defend the inclusion of historical biblical criticism in the repertoire of Catholic biblical interpretation. He saw this as an important step in reforming Catholic theology. The Modernist crisis set the stage for the major debates that would occur in the Catholic theological world for more than a century. The controversy over Modernism became one important conflict that helped pave the way for the Second Vatican Council. The issues raised during Loisy’s time, remain contested today. Examining how Loisy approached biblical studies helps readers better understand his overall work, and the place it played in the pivotal intellectual turmoil of his day.

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain   Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has appendices.

Book The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story and the Temple Library of Nippur

Download or read book The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story and the Temple Library of Nippur written by Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.