Posted on 07/27/2021 8:27:13 PM PDT by Rebelbase
The Department of Justice announced that it seized a tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
According to the DOJ, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was smuggled into the US and then auctioned off.
The ancient tablet had been bought by Oklahoma-based arts and craft superstore Hobby Lobby.
The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it had recovered the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a rare portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, from Oklahoma-based arts and crafts superstore Hobby Lobby.
The epic of Gilgamesh is considered one of the most ancient works of literature and originally comes from Iraq. According to the Department of Justice, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was smuggled into the US, and an international auction house sold the tablet to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. The company put the tablet on display at the Museum of the Bible.
Law enforcement seized the tablet from the museum in 2019.
"Forfeiture of the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet demonstrates the Department's continued commitment to eliminating smuggled cultural property from the U.S. art market," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. said in a written statement. "Thwarting trade in smuggled goods by seizing and forfeiting an ancient artifact shows the department's dedication to using all available tools, including forfeiture, to ensure justice."
The tablet measures approximately 6 inches by 5 inches and is written in the Akkadian language, the DOJ said.
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Was Gilgamesh in the original Akkadian language part of your kid’s homeschooling?
It’s good to see the DOJ finally getting into the important work for this country.....
-PJ
What operating system? Mine is Android.
Precursor to the ancient myths incorporated into Genesis.
It’s Gold Star wearing times for Christians in America. Hobby Lobby did absolutely nothing wrong, and yet...
“ancient myths incorporated into Genesis.“
Say what?
“Law enforcement seized the tablet from the museum in 2019.”
So why is it being announced as if it just happened? Am I reading something incorrectly?
I wonder who drew the picture for the DOJ? They are so incompetent there is no way they were able to pursue this by themselves.
The correct version is the one you can bet your eternal soul on.
The Department of Justice? What is that? Lately, blinders to all the injustice inflicted on the populace, might as well be disbanded under the Biden regime.
Merab with sails unfurled.
Corrupted legend of the accurate account in Genesis. At least the portion regarding Utnapishtim (the Mesopotamia Noah). Yes, there was a global flood - but the ark wasn't built in the shape of a cube (the Gilgamesh account), but was constructed per the Genesis account.
The other stuff regarding the exploits of Gilgamesh and his hairy bud (apparently a close relative to Bigfoot), who knows? I.e., any truth in it, or just a tale told after a bad acid hit?
CC
If Democrat St. Jimmy Carter had spent the $1.6 million on it for his presidential library, the DOJ would have no interest. The bloated big government sees Hobby Lobby as an enemy and uses the full apparatus of the deep state to investigate and punish them. The left wants permanent one-party authoritarian rule like the CCP in China, and to outlaw Christianity as a domestic threat to communist rule.
Lovely. So now the US government will turn over one of the oldest literary manuscripts in ancient history to a barbarian culture that burns all such artifacts. Brilliant tactics for a Marxist demogoguery. Evil action by a formerly Christian nation.
Or the plainer story in Genesis was the real story and the Gilgamesh story was a more dressed up version that was derived from the legends of obscure peoples who dwelt in Mesopotamia.(Obscure in the sense that Noah and his story were kept alive in the tribal traditions that Abraham would have been taught from). Abraham then passed down the true story to his family.
You see no one bothers to ask that question...how did the AKkadians come up with the story of Gilgamesh? Everyone thinks that genesis was a copy.
LOL!
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