The Babylonian Story Of The Deluge 1920 by E.A. Wallis Budge

The Babylonian Story Of The Deluge 1920 Reviews

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  Les Wilson

  The Babylonian Story Of The Deluge 1920
  
  by E.A. Wallis Budge
  
  
  
  I totally agree with Ericka's review so will quote it.
  
  "13 Jan 2018
  
  The actual stories from the tablets are interesting, but this book spends a lot of time talking about how the tablets were found, by whom, and how they were
  
  stored, etc. I liked reading the tablet transcriptions and the abridged epic of Gilgamesh, but it took a really long time to get to the actual meat of this story.
  
  Read from: sept 19, 2017 - sept 27, 2017"
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  Monty Milne

  Budge was of low birth and left school at the age of twelve. Despite this, he eventually became one of England’s most distinguished academics. He was wined and dined by the greatest in the land, and showered with honours and awards. His life is the proof that Victorian England was far more socially mobile than contemporary re-imaginings suppose.
  
  This is a short book, but even so there is quite a lot of padding. This is inevitable when the Babylonian Flood text is so short. Budge gives us quite a bit of detail about the finding of the tablets, and a summary of the rest of the Gilgamesh Epic, of which the Flood narrative forms only a part. There are some photographs of the tablets themselves. This is all available free from Project Gutenberg, but it is really only a basic introduction. Anyone whose interest is piqued should get something on the entire Gilgamesh Epic, with a more up to date translation, and should also be aware of the discussion of other recensions of the Flood narrative, such as the Atrahasis Tablet, which contains slight but interesting differences.
  
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  Ericka

  The actual stories from the tablets are interesting, but this book spends a lot of time talking about how the tablets were found, by whom, and how they were stored, etc. I liked reading the tablet transcriptions and the abridged epic of Gilgamesh, but it took a really long time to get to the actual meat of this story.
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  Tyler

  Gets it's point across.
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  D

  This is the story of the Deluge, that one told in the bible, but written by different people.
  Actually, this is more than that, this is a study of twelve of the tablets of Nineveh, these relate the story of Gilgamesh, a heroic mythological figure, not unlike Hercules or Jason, but much much older.
  The Deluge is told in it.
  It is a short book, worth for it's historical value, after all, this is probably the oldest epic of humanity still possible to read, since it's lacking only some parts.
  I just don't give it a full 5 rating because I did read another one that had a more accurate translation, but unfortunately only had 2 of the 12 tablets.
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  Ania

  I have to say that this book was short and enjoyable, however I often wish it had maps and illustrations. For example, a map of Nineveh would be really helpful as the first part of the book talks about the discovery of tablets in a library of the temple of Nebo (aka Nabu) as well as the library of the ruler Ashur-bani-pal. Here's an example that you'll find useful. Print it out if you're going to read this book:
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  Jena

  ¡Increíble! El hallazgo de las tablillas de la biblioteca de Asurbanipal.
  
  Merged review:
  
  La edición de este librito es muy antigua, es de 1920, y fue escrito por Wallis Budge quien fuera el antiguo encargado de las antigüedades Egipcias y Asirias del Museo Británico. Aquí describió el cómo y el cuándo del descubrimiento de la biblioteca de Asurbanipal, en la antigua ciudad perdida de Nínive (perdida solo para los europeos). Los árabes, que invadieron Iraq desde el siglo VII, sabían que en los montículos frente a la actual Mosul se encontraban los restos de Nínive.
  Nínive se encuentra ubicada en el lado suroeste del río Tigris y contaba con palacios construidos por Sargón II, Senaquerib, Esarhaddon. En otro de los montículos estaban los edificios levantados por Asurbanipal. Entre las 2 colinas está la muralla occidental, que en tiempos del Imperio Asirio era bañada por las aguas del Tigris que con el tiempo cambió su curso y ahora está a una milla de la ciudad.
  Desde 1845 hasta 1852 los arqueólogos Layard y Rassom excavaron una parte de la ciudad y en el palacio del suroeste encontraron dos cámaras pequeñas llenas de piso a techo de tablillas de barro cocido, todas de diferentes tamaños, con un lado plano y el otro convexo del tamaño de un cuaderno de 25 x 20 cm.
  En las tablillas una vez descifradas, se encontró la Épica de Gilgamesh y la Narración del Diluvio.
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  Adam Smith

  A very interesting account of the finding of the libraries of Nineveh. The story of the deluge itself is very brief and similar to its biblical counterpart 'Noah's ark'. Also included is a detailed retelling of the epic of Gilgamesh; which is well worth the read.
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  R.

  What's there to say, it's the earliest known telling of the great flood and pre-dates any Christian reference to the flood (Noah) by thousands of years.
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  Chandra Fry

  Decent
  
  I found it difficult to follow and understand a lot of what was written. It was interesting to read about the deluge from another perspective. It was worth reading.