Posted on 11/27/2019 1:49:22 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Full title: 3,000-year-old tablet describing Babylonian Noah’s Ark tale could be ‘earliest ever example of fake news,’ scholar says
Fake news describes real historical record it doesn’t like as fake news.
Yeah - need noticing that a lot lately.
The Nineveh Times?
Babylon Post?...................
Byzantine Bee
Android or mac?
The whole situation is a simple Babylonian misprint.
It was really about Noah’s Shark!
*ping*
And at sundown there'll be bubu burgers.
Ut-Nephistam was the Babylonian Noah
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!!
That Cambridge scholar must be an atheist.
Did you even read the article?
Poster posting without reading original post!
What about Noah’s Baby Shark?
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.
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.
Only for us nerds:
Dr Martin Worthington has created the worlds 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
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