The Chaldean account of Genesis, containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchs, and Nimrod: Babylonian fables, and legends... More > of the gods; from the cuneiform inscriptions. By George Smith. With Illustrations. Reproduction of 1876 Edition.< Less
The Chaldean account of Genesis, containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchs, and Nimrod: Babylonian fables, and legends... More > of the gods; from the cuneiform inscriptions. By George Smith. With Illustrations. Reproduction of 1876 Edition.< Less
The Chaldean account of Genesis, containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchs, and Nimrod: Babylonian fables, and legends... More > of the gods; from the cuneiform inscriptions. By George Smith. With Illustrations. Reproduction of 1876 Edition.< Less
Qasha Shmuel Dawid was born in Gavilan, Iran in 1872. In 1913 he became priest of St. Ephrem parish in Chicago. This was the first Chaldean Catholic parish to be formed in the United States. Qasha... More > Shmuel developed his own printing type and published several books in the modern Assyrian language in Chicago before his death in 1930. This volume contains his only contribution to the subject of history and serves as an important witness to the growth of nationalism among the Assyrians and Chaldeans of the time as it is one of the earliest writings to stress not only the modern and medieval history of the people but also to make a conscious link to their long forgotten ancient history.< Less
George Smith's The Chaldean Account of Genesis (1876) is one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the development of Near Eastern myth cycles ever published. This volume... More > delivered to a shocked Victorian audience the first reports of the Babylonian Flood legend, of the Epic of Gilgamesh (then known as Izdubar), and the uncanny parallels between the Hebrew Bible and the myths and legends of Babylon. This edition is an unabridged republication of the 1876 first edition of this important work, which highlights George Smith's astonishing scholarship and the amazing amount of information Smith was able to collect and publish in the first years after their discovery. It is astounding just how much Smith got right and just how fast so much became known about some of humanity's oldest literature.< Less
SOME explanation is necessary in introducing my present work. Little time has elapsed since I discovered the most important of these inscriptions, and in the intervening period I have had, amidst... More > other work, to collect the various fragments of the legends, copy, compare, and translate, altering my matter from time to time, as new fragments turned up. Even now I have gone to press with one of the fragments of the last tablet of the Izdubar series omitted.
The present condition of the legends and their recent discovery alike forbid me to call this anything more than a provisional work; but there was so general a desire to see the translations that I have published them, hoping my readers will take them with the same reserve with which I have given them.
I have avoided some of the most important comparisons and conclusions with respect to Genesis, as my desire was first to obtain the recognition of the evidence without prejudice.
George Smith< Less
SOME explanation is necessary in introducing my present work. Little time has elapsed since I discovered the most important of these inscriptions, and in the intervening period I have had, amidst... More > other work, to collect the various fragments of the legends, copy, compare, and translate, altering my matter from time to time, as new fragments turned up. Even now I have gone to press with one of the fragments of the last tablet of the Izdubar series omitted.
The present condition of the legends and their recent discovery alike forbid me to call this anything more than a provisional work; but there was so general a desire to see the translations that I have published them, hoping my readers will take them with the same reserve with which I have given them.
I have avoided some of the most important comparisons and conclusions with respect to Genesis, as my desire was first to obtain the recognition of the evidence without prejudice.
George Smith< Less
George Smith was a self taught translator of the Babylonian cuniform; when he pieced these tablets together, he discovered the Babylonian account of Genesis, which preceeded the Old Testament version... More > by at least a millenia. In current decades, researchers like Zecharia Sitchin and David Icke have related these tales as the story of Annunaki, the Reptilians from the planet Nibiru, who seeded mankind as a slave race.< Less
