Legends of Babylon and Egypt, in Relation to Hebrew Tradition (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Sayer, Frederick

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ISBN 10 : 1332588077 ISBN 13 : 9781332588077

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how ancient flood tales cross continents and cultures to reveal early beliefs about order, duty, and the gods. This study compares Sumerian, Babylonian, and Hebrew accounts of the Deluge, showing how each version reflects its culture’s politics, religion, and world view. It traces how a single story branches into different traditions and what those differences tell us about ancient storytelling.

In accessible, carefully argued chapters, the book explains the sources, motifs, and imagery that recur across the flood narratives. It highlights how warnings, dreams, and divine messages function in these myths, and it connects these ancient texts to later ideas about judgment, salvation, and the fate of humanity. The discussion draws on inscriptions, chronologies, and temple traditions to illuminate how these legends evolved over time.

• Compare Sumerian, Babylonian, and Hebrew flood accounts side by side to see where they align and where they diverge.


• Learn how dreams, omens, and divine pronouncements drive the plot and convey moral messages.


• Understand how early myths influenced later religious ideas and biblical storytelling.


• See how ancient chronologies and dynastic lists shape our view of premodern history.

Ideal for readers of ancient history, biblical studies, and myth and religion who want a clear, evidence-based look at how a shared story can diverge across cultures.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Legends of Babylon and Egypt, in Relation to Hebrew Tradition

In these lectures an attempt is made, not so much to restate familiar facts, as to accommodate them to new and supplementary evidence which has been published in America since the outbreak of the war. But even without the excuse of recent discovery, no apology would be needed for any comparison or contrast of Hebrew tradition with the mythological and legendary beliefs of Babylon and Egypt. Hebrew achievements in the sphere of religion and ethics are only thrown into stronger relief when studied against their contemporary background.

The bulk of our new material is furnished by some early texts, written towards the close of the third millennium B.c. They incorporate traditions which extend in unbroken outline from their own period into the remote ages of the past, and claim to trace the history of man back to his creation. They represent the early national traditions of the Sumerian people, who preceded the Semites as the ruling race in Babylonia; and incidentally they necessitate a revision of current views with regard to the cradle of Babylonian civilization. The most remarkable of the new documents is one which relates in poetical narrative an account of the Creation, of Antediluvian history, and of the Deluge. It thus exhibits a close resemblance in structure to the corresponding Hebrew traditions, a resemblance that is not shared by the Semitic-Babylonian Versions at present known. But in matter the Sumerian tradition is more primitive than any of the Semitic versions. In spite of the fact that the text appears to have reached us in a magical setting, and to some extent in epitomized form, this early document enables us to tap the stream of tradition at a point far above any at which approach has hitherto been possible.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Leonard William King (8 December 1869–20 August 1919), M.A., F.S.A., was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist educated at Rugby School and King's College in Cambridge.[1] He collected stone inscriptions widely in the Near East, taught Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King's College for a number of years, and published a large number of works on these subjects. He is also known for his translations of ancient works such as the Code of Hammurabi. He became the Assistant to the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, at the British Museum.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332588077
• ISBN 13: 9781332588077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
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