The Chaldean Account of Genesis - Couverture souple

Smith, George Adam

9781402185908: The Chaldean Account of Genesis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1402185901 ISBN 13 : 9781402185908

Editeur : Adamant Media Corporation, 2000

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1846 edition by Henry Colburn, London.

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Biographie de l'auteur

George Smith (1840 – 1876), was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and the Epic of Gilgamish. From his youth, he was fascinated with Assyrian culture and history. His natural talent for cuneiform studies was first noticed by Samuel Birch, Egyptologist and Direct of the Department of Antiquities, who brought the young man to the attention of the renowned Assyriologist Sir Henry Rawlinson. As early as 1861, he was working evenings sorting and cleaning the mass of friable fragments of clay cylinders and tablets in the Museum's storage rooms. In 1872, Smith achieved worldwide fame by his translation of the Chaldaean account of the Great Flood, which he read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology on December 3 and whose audience included the Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.