The Gilgamesh epic and Old Testament parallels
Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. Following up on his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, the author int...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Univ. of Chicago Press,
1954, c1949
Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press 1963, ©1949 Chicago : [1949] Chicago : [1971, ©1949] Chicago, [1949] Chicago : [1949] |
| Edition: | 2d ed |
| Series: | Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.) ;
P136 |
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| Summary: | Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. Following up on his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, the author interprets the famous Gilgamesh epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament in order to determine the inherent historical relationship of Hebrew and Mesopotamian ideas |
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| Item Description: | Originally published 1946 Second edition published 1949; first published in this edition 1963 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC Translation of the Gilgamesh epic: p. 16-101. "Related material" (transliterated texts): p. 102-136 "A companion to ... [the author's] monograph The Babylonian Genesis." "A companion to ...[the author's] monograph The Babylonian Genesis." "A companion to my monograph The Babylonian Genesis."--Pref |
| Physical Description: | ix, 269 p 25 cm. ix, 269 p. ; 25 cm ix, 269 pages ; 21 cm ix, 269 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Bibliographical footnotes |