3,000-year-old tablet describing Babylonian Noah's Ark tale could be 'earliest ever example..[tr]

Fox News ^ | 11/26/2019 | By Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

[TomServo]

A scholar at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. has suggested that the "earliest ever example of fake news" exists in a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that describes the story of Noah and the Ark, widely believed to be the inspiration for the Biblical story.

[TomServo]

Sooo...a false god spreading fake news about a real God.

[TomServo]

Full title: 3,000-year-old tablet describing Babylonian Noah’s Ark tale could be ‘earliest ever example of fake news,’ scholar says

[Secret Agent Man]

Fake news describes real historical record it doesn’t like as fake news.

[TomServo]

Yeah - need noticing that a lot lately.

[Red Badger]

The Nineveh Times?

Babylon Post?...................

[BipolarBob]

Byzantine Bee

[Raycpa]

Android or mac?

[Candor7]

The whole situation is a simple Babylonian misprint.

It was really about Noah’s Shark!

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Migraine]

At dawn there will be kukku-cakes,

And at sundown there'll be bubu burgers.

[BigEdLB]

Ut-Nephistam was the Babylonian Noah

[RatRipper]

Yeah, they “mis-spoke” when the carved the tablet.

The archeologists probably didn’t find the tablet where they retracted the story the next day!!

[elcid1970]

That Cambridge scholar must be an atheist.

[TexasGator]

Did you even read the article?

[TexasGator]

Poster posting without reading original post!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

What about Noah’s Baby Shark?

[CondorFlight]

Almost every culture has the Flood story; and almost always with the same basic details: a man, his wife, and three sons and daughters (or sons and their wives) are spared.

That suggests a common origin; a common inherited history.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. I'm pinging this one only because it is itself fake news -- the fake parts of it are, 1 the equating of the Epic of Gilgamesh with the vignette of Noah in OT Genesis, and 2 that this is somehow a new observation. Claiming that the Bible is a plagiarized or at best derivative work is a direct or legacy consequence of the deep-seated hatred of Jews.

Ryan and Pitman took that approach in their book "Noah's Flood", which equated the Noachian Flood with the Black Sea flood. I don't think they hate Jews, merely saying that their saddling on of the phony equating of the Epic of Gilgamesh with the Noah story was amateurish and wrongheaded.

• Before Noah: Myths of the Flood Are Far Older Than the Bible [2014]
• How the ark changed shape [2014]
• Gilgamesh: The Warrior King [2013]
• [Indo-Euro]Language family may have Anatolian origins [2012]
• Archaeology: Black Sea's ancient coast found - report [2011]
• Is the Biblical Flood Account a Modified Copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh? [2010]
• Relic reveals Noah's ark was circular [2010]
• Bulgarian Archaeologists Discover 7 000-Years-Old Settlement [2009]
• Danube Delta Holds Answers to 'Noah's Flood' Debate [science] [2009]
• Dugout probably dating to prehistoric age discovered at Black Sea bottom [2008]
• Noah's Ark Flood Spurred European Farming [2008]
• Noah's Ark Flood Spurred European Farming [2007]
• Epic Hero (Gilgamesh Saga) [2007]
• Why Noah's Flood was Local [2006]
• Black Sea Starts to Yield a Rich Ancient History [2006]
• Tools Unlock Secrets Of Early Man [2005]
• Potential Origins of Europeans Found [2005]
• Gilgamesh Tomb Believed Found [2005]
• Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusions [2004]
• Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusion (Noah's Flood?) [2004]
• BBC Report: Noah's Ark "...more credible version based on Babylonian sources." [2004]
• LINGUISTICS: Early Date for the Birth of Indo-European Languages [2003]
• Did Noah Go Through Flood in Wooden Submarine? [2003]
• Scientists Prepare to Excavate Black Sea [2003]
• Explorer Who Discovered The 'Titanic' Sets Out To Prove That Noah's Flood Formed Black Sea [2003]
• Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea - [2003]
• Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea [2003]
• Was Noah's Flood Universal? [2003]
• Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia - Home To First Civilization On Earth [2003]
• Gilgamesh tomb believed found! [2003]
• IRAQ: Gilgamesh tomb believed found [2003]
• Making Waves Over Noah's Flood. [2003]
• Making Waves Over Noah's Flood (Black Sea) [2003]
• Can Technology Discover the Ancient City of Gilgamesh? [2003]
• Questions about Noah's Flood Theory [2002]
• Noah's Flood Hypothesis May Not Hold Water [2002]

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/irvingfinkel/index

[AdmSmith]

Only for us nerds:
Dr Martin Worthington has created the world’s first film in the ancient language with his Babylonian-speaking students dramatising a folk tale from a clay tablet from 701BC.

Entitled The Poor Man of Nippur, it recounts the tale of a man with a goat who takes revenge on a City mayor for killing the animal by beating him up three times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYoFlnJLoE 22 min

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/27/academic-revives-ancient-babylonian-2000-years-language-died/