The Gilgamesh epic and Old Testament parallels

Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. Following up on his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, the author interprets the famous Gilgamesh epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament in order to determine the inherent historical relationship of Hebrew and Mesopotamian ideas.

שנה

1973

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

269

ISBN

9780226323978

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata