Babel and Bible by Friedrich Delitzsch

Babel and Bible by Friedrich Delitzsch

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Zusammenfassung

A distinguished German Assyriologist, Friedrich Delitzsch (1850–1922) caused a furore in 1902 when he gave a lecture on the light that cuneiform research had shed on the Bible, tracing Old Testament narratives to earlier Babylonian myths. Reissued here is the illustrated 1903 English edition.

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Babel and Bible by Friedrich Delitzsch

Son of a Lutheran theologian, Friedrich Delitzsch (1850-1922) was a professor of Semitic languages and Assyriology at Leipzig, Breslau and Berlin. A founder of the German Oriental Society, he caused a furore far beyond the world of Ancient Near Eastern studies when, in January 1902, he gave a lecture 'upon the relations between the Bible and the recent results of cuneiform research' in the presence of the German emperor and his court. Delitzsch demonstrated for his non-specialist audience that (as many biblical archaeologists already knew) several Old Testament narratives, including the stories of the Creation and the Flood, were derived from earlier Babylonian myths. The Cambridge Assyriologist C. H. W. Johns, who translated and edited this illustrated 1903 English edition of the original lecture and its sequel, remarked that the book 'is now a historic event', with print runs of 40,000 copies. This edition also includes Delitzsch's responses to his critics.
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ISBN 13 9781108081610
ISBN 10 1108081614
Titel Babel and Bible
Autor Friedrich Delitzsch
Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Biblical Studies
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2018-02-01
Seitenanzahl 264
Hinweis auf dem Einband Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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