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To: fieldmarshaldj; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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.

18 posted on 11/27/2019 3:11:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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/


20 posted on 11/27/2019 3:38:04 PM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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