Atrahasis: An Ancient Hebrew Deluge Story and Other Flood Story FragmentsThe word Atrahasis means "extra wise" and refers to the earliest known version of Noah, who built an ark and saved mankind from destruction. This is that story, from ancient Sumeria, which many scholars believe was the original from which all known flood stories came from. This was the most popular story in the ancient world and has survived for over five thousand years. It is the only one that all cultures, worldwide, seem to share. Why? Was there really a great flood? And why do we not explore the oldest known version carefully for clues? That is the purpose of this book, which also includes a number of other interesting flood story fragments and documents. |
Contents
An Ancient Hebrew Deluge Story | 11 |
An Ancient Fragment of the Etana Legend | 33 |
A Fragment of the Adapa Legend | 39 |
Transliterations and Translations of the Deluge Stories | 58 |
Dynastic Lists of Early Babylonia | 84 |
Common terms and phrases
1/2 trade paper 9 trade a-bu-bu a-na Adad Adapa Akkadian Amorite Amorite word Amurru Atra-hasis Atra-hasis Epic Babylonia clamor Clay COLUMN dAdad dE-a deity Delitzsch DELUGE STORY dEn-lil Dhorme dragon dynasty Eagle early period earth elippi Enlil Enuma Elish Erech Eridu Etana Etana Legend fig tree flood fragment Genesis Gilgamesh Epic God Games gods Godspell Hallab heaven Hebrew Hebrew word hero Humbaba Huwawa ilânimes inscriptions ISBN Ishtar Jensen KB ki-i ki-ma Kingdom kings known land late redaction Lugal Lugal Marda mankind Marduk myth Neil Freer ni-ši-tu Nippur Nisaba Old Testament omen originally Paul Tice personal name Poebel redactor refer Rogers Cuneiform Parallels root šam-mu šattu i-na seems Serpent Seven Tablets Shamash ship Sumerian Syria Tablets of Creation Tammuz thou Tiamat trade paper illustrated translated transliteration Um-napishtim West Semitic writer written in Sumerian Zecharia Sitchin Zi-û-suddu