by hadassah | Nov 27, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
Babylonian Flood Story, 15th century BCE The Babylonian Flood Story tablet was not excavated; it was found by a shepherd of Kibbutz Megiddo after the Oriental Institute excavators had closed shop. In a dump of excavated soil, the shepherd found a broken tablet,...
by hadassah | Nov 27, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions, What Abraham Jacob and Joseph Might Have Known
Sumerian Flood Story, 1740 BCE The Sumerian flood story cannot serve as the basis for independent meaningful comparison with the Bible for it has survived only in a very fragmentary state. The first 38 lines are missing, and there are long gaps in the...
by hadassah | Nov 27, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
Atrahasis Epic: The Flood Story, 18th century BCE Three different Babylonian stories of the flood have survived- the Sumerian Flood Story, the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic, and the Atrahasis Epic. Of these, the best known is Gilgamesh XI, which was one...
by hadassah | Jul 21, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
From the Historical Genesis of the Jewish People through the Reigns of King David, Saul, and Solomon to the Babylonian Destruction and Exile Over the past century, a scholarly consensus has emerged that the Hebrew Bible derives from a variety of sources which, with...
by hadassah | Jul 21, 2008 | Doublets and Contradictions
Overview Genesis 5-11 and the Historical-Critical Method, Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006. The Story- 2500 BCE-539 BCE, MyJewishLearning.com. Primary sources Genesis 5-11 Genesis 6-9- Noah and the Flood, Texts and Traditions, ed. Lawrence H....
