RT Book
T1 The Chaldean Account of Genesis: Containing the Description of the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, the Desruction of Sodom, the Times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod
T2 Cambridge library collection. Archaeology
A1 Smith, George 1840-1876
A2 Sayce, A. H. 1846-1933
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1876
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883274124
AB The Assyriologist George Smith (1840–76) was trained originally as an engraver, but was enthralled by the discoveries of Layard and Rawlinson. He taught himself cuneiform script, and joined the British Museum as a 'repairer' or matcher of broken cuneiform tablets. Promotion followed, and after one of Smith's most significant discoveries among the material sent to the Museum - a Babylonian story of a great flood - he was sent to the Middle East, where he found more inscriptions which contained other parts of the epic tale of Gilgamesh. In 1876, shortly before his early death, Smith published this work, which drew extraordinary parallels between much earlier cuneiform documents and the biblical book of Genesis. The book was both controversial and very successful. The second edition, reissued here, was published in 1880, with corrections and additional material provided by Archibald Sayce (1846–1933), which reflected recent advances in Middle Eastern studies
OP 337
NO Includes index
CN BS1236
SN 978-1-316-01434-9
K1 Bible : Genesis : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Cosmogony, Babylonian
K1 Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian
DO 10.1017/CBO9781316014349