Posted on 11/27/2019 1:49:22 PM PST by TomServo
Where was Babylon? In Mesopotamia - which included present day Iraq. Where was Abraham born, raised and from where he began his journey which led through what is now Arabia? Abraham was born in the Mesopotamian city of Ur, which was about 200 miles southeast of present day Baghdad.
Finding the earliest accounts of the “biblical flood” story in Mesopotamia is no surprise. In fact, given Abraham’s place of origin and that the stories of Genesis were passed on into Judaism by Abraham and his family and friends, it is quite normal for some of the oldest tales from the bible to be found near where the story of Abraham begins.
The inspiration for the flood narrative in Genesis was the flood itself. The flood itself obviously preceded every flood narrative. Plus biblical scripture is the inspired inerrant word of god, so there’s that... Why are people so determined to prove that Moses plagiarized some earlier written account of the flood? If details differ from the Genesis account, those details represent error, simple as that.
Sounds like he’s got a first-rate PR campaign.
Doot doot, doot doot doot doot doot...
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Well. Of course. We all knew that.
Yep, read the article through.
“...the manipulation of information and language has begun. It may be the earliest ever example of fake news.”
Not even a hint by the perfesser that the Flood in Gilgamesh might corroborate the Biblical account.
And every sentence in the cuneiform has a double meaning? That’s how the Delphic Oracle stayed in business.
Sounds pretty godless to me.
“Yep, read the article through.
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Not even a hint by the perfesser that the Flood in Gilgamesh might corroborate the Biblical account.”
ROTFLMAO! You didnt read the article!
Upon discovery, Smith realized the tablet told the same tale as Noah and the Ark in the Biblical book of Genesis.
re: “3,000-year-old tablet”
CISC or RISC architecture?
OK....Gilgamesh corroborates Scripture. And it would seem that this was a theory among archaeologists for quite some time before now.
So.....why does he call it “fake news”?
“So.....why does he call it “fake news”?”
Third paragraph of article. Reposted below for those that dont read the article:
“Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news,” Worthington said in a statement. “He tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food will rain from the sky if they help him build the ark.
A lot of Jews were ‘moved’ to Babylon and became integrated into that society sharing history and education.
Hatred of the source of these writings aside... The timeline of the writings tells all in which came first and who plagiarized who. Funny thing is, all this hatred is misdirected, Islam wasn’t even born yet to hate. Sometimes the ignorance and hatred of extremists just astounds me. It is an absolute wonder we learn anything from real history at all.
The NY Times was founded on September 18, 1851 - therefore this article is simply BS.
The Flood stories of Noah and others may be due to a cometary impact about 6,000 years ago. The large Burckle crater in the Indian Ocean has been dated to that time period and would have caused massive tsunamis and catastrophic rainfall and flooding due to a Shoemaker-Levy cascade of other impacts.
Utnapishtim, which means roughly one who found life; Hebrew 'nephesh' life. Interestingly, in the Babylonian tale, Utnapishtim becomes immortal following the flood. Gilgamesh finds this unsatisfying and says to Utnapishtim,
I look upon you, Utnapishtim,
Your appearance is not strange; you are like unto me;
My heart had regarded you as prepared to do battle;
Yet you lie idly on your back!
How did you enter the assembly of the gods,
And obtain life eternal?
The Akkadian 'Noah' was Atra-khasis 'the super wise'.
It occurs to me that while these tales share a number of common themes, it does not necessarily follow that the latter were derived from the former, but that each may draw from an older saga. Perhaps in the language terms used there is an older mystery or legend hidden that could be recovered.
“A lot of Jews were ‘moved’ to Babylon and became integrated into that society sharing history and education.”
That came centuries later, after Abraham migrated from there (200 or so miles south or present day Baghdad) and after the Hebrews journeys that eventually led them to Canaan. It was from there that many Jews were taken back to the homeland of Abraham, their great ancestor.
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That is interesting to me. Noah would have all sorts of legends attached to him during the rest of his life. The telephone game would make sure that he was some sort of immortal, while the truth was that he was a believer. That would be why surprise was elicited. Here he was, just an old man with eternal life because he had trusted God!
Interesting that you should bring that up. Apparently in some versions of the myth the god attempting to save mankind gives directions to build a craft that is shaped more like a medicine capsule and is entirely sealed as it is intended to be able to survive being submerged at least for short periods of time.
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