Izdubar strangling a Lion. From Khorsabad Sculpture. 175 Chapter XI. THE IZDUBAR LEGENDS. Izdubar.—Meaning of the name.—A solar hero.—Prototype of Herakles.—Age of Legends.—Babylonian cylinders.—Notices of Izdubar.—Surippak.—Ark City.—Twelve tablets.—Extent of Legends.—Description.—Introduction.—Meeting of Hea-bani and Izdubar.—Destruction of tyrant Khumbaba.—Adventures of Istar.—Illness and wanderings of Izdubar.—Description of Deluge and conclusion.—First Tablet.—Kingdom of Nimrod.—Traditions.—Identifications.—Translation.—Elamite conquest—Dates. E now come to the […]
Genesis
The Chaldean Account of Genesis – George Smith
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MESOPOTAMIAN MOTIFS IN THE EARLY CHAPTERS OF GENESIS
By: E.A. Speiser View PDF Biblical history proper begins with the call to Abraham to leave his native country and set out for a destination that is to become the Promised Land. The event is recorded in Genesis 12. All that precedes, i.e. Gen. 1-11, is thus in a sense extra-biblical and, in more ways than one, […]
1. In the Beginning: Two Stories of Creation by Doug Linder (2004)
1. In the Beginning: Two Stories of Creation by Doug Linder (2004) In the beginning, about 3,000 years ago*, Jewish desert dwellers in what is present-day southern Israel told a story around campfires about the creation of the first man and first woman. The story they told, and passed on to generations of future desert dwellers, described a […]
ABSOLUTE KNAVE Exploring the avowed classics, popular franchises and strange obscurities of art, literature, music and film THE BIBLE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER: GENESIS 1 – 3! February 21, 2013 So, we come at last to the ur-text of Western Literature, the Bible itself. I’ve managed to cover an extremely broad range of books and shows […]