Genesis Revisited (Earth Chronicles, #4.5) by Zecharia Sitchin

Genesis Revisited (Earth Chronicles, #4.5) Reviews

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  Erin

  2.5 Stars
  
  I don't believe in "Guilty Pleasures" but if I did the tv show Ancient Aliens would be #1 on my "Guilty Pleasures" list. If you've never heard of the show its basically about how everything from The Bible to the great pyramids were inspired by or built by Aliens. Its a ridiculous show but I love it anyway...or maybe I love it because its ridiculous.
  
  Genesis Revisited is part of a book series The Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin, Sitchin is one the leading voices in the Ancient Aliens community. According to him millions of years ago Aliens known as Anunnaki came Earth from either Mars or a still undiscovered 10th planet in our solar system created us and gave us all of our knowledge.
  I don't personally believe any of this but its an interesting theory..so why not.
  
  I much prefer watching the show to read this book, he throws a lot of science and math at you, that unless you're a scientist or mathematician you won't understand. He also talks about his books and all the tv shows he's appeared in A LOT...I mean A LOT ALOT! If I heard Sitchin talk about how important & smart he is for one more page I was gonna lose it.
  
  Around The Year In 52 Books: A book linked by the 4 elements: #1 Earth.
  A Book For All Seasons Bookclub: Awkward Attempt.
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  Jeffrey McKinley

  A great philosopher once said an intelligent person can entertain an idea without accepting it. That is where I stand with this work by Sitchin. He believes that an alien race created human beings on earth and we can find hints to this in the ancient religious texts like the Bible. The author is no dummy, for sure. He knows how to make his position sound plausible. I was riveted, but not convinced. If his view happened to be true, it would answer a great many mysteries that traditional Christianity has failed to address. Overall, it is a well written book (read 6/6/2012).
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  Chy

  Inspiration fuel. Also, nightmare fuel, if you let it get to you. If you've read or seen anything along the lines of The Fourth Kind, especially. You know, anywhere where people are getting messages from "aliens" or "spirits" that speak Sumerian.
  
  Because that's what this is. Sitchin fully believes that if you read the Sumerian tablets in their full glory and context, they tell you about Planet X, how it comes into the solar system every however-many millennia and how its inhabitants made us by combining what was here with their own DNA.
  
  And, for the most part, he makes a good case for it. But step back, and realize there are at least a couple of other possible explanations for the things he's using as evidence. And still, he keeps piling them on and no matter what it's all interesting as hell.
  
  Thing is, I tend to read stuff like this like creation myth. Like a fiction writer's creation myth behind their fiction. And, taken from that angle, it always strikes me positively fascinating. I read The 12th Planet, like, fifteen years ago and remember thinking, basically, "Cool story, bro." This wasn't much different.
  
  But I know more now, and was able to punch holes in a lot more in this book than I remember being able to punch holes in that one. I enjoyed it anyway. It gave me quite a few more things to look up. And you know what? I kinda do think he's right about how the solar system got to be how it is now (with the asteroid belt, the differential in the thickness of Earth's crust, and our disproportionately large moon). Even if he's not, it's my favorite theory of it so far. Having that to think about was worth the whole book for me; it even made up for his crazy talk about Mars structures there at the end.
  
  Don't get me wrong, I love a good story about there being "obviously" artificial structures on Mars. But be cool about it, man. Don't get all crazy on me, mixing up your own facts and telling me how parallel ridges that have gargantuan dimensions are signs of cultivated land—just because, from outer space, gargantuan ridges look like rows in a field.
  
  Still, he definitely got me thinking throughout. And, contrary to some evidence, I do enjoy thinking.
  
  
  
  
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  Christian Nikitas

  Very interesting book. I don't know what I think about what the author has presented, but it's a fascinating alternative to what the general understanding of how the earth became what it is and how people came to be.
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  Matt

  How advanced in thought and science were the ancients? And is modern science catching up on what they knew? These questions are the basis of Zecharia Sitchin’s Genesis Revisited in which he looks back at the scientific developments since publishing of his book The 12th Planet (up until 1990) to show that his finds in that and subsequent books are being proven.
  
  Organized in a well throughout manner, Sitchin begins each topical chapter—save the final two—looking at the scientific consensus and findings that have been advanced since the 1976 publication of his first book. Then after laying the foundation going back to the Sumerian texts that he first wrote about to show that modern science is now replicating the knowledge of the earliest civilizations that was brought to them by the Anunnaki of Nibiru. The last two chapters were focused on more “recent” developments, particularly the Phobos 2 incident and the sudden cooperation between the United States and the USSR in space particularly in regards to Mars.
  
  Obviously the biggest flaw of this book is that it was published in the fall of 1990 meaning that there has been almost 30 years of advancement of scientific knowledge that has made some of this science discussed in the book outdated. Yet I have to give Sitchin credit for keeping things simple when explaining his theories by only hitting the high points and then referencing the reader to his earlier books for a more in-depth look. This allowed Sitchin to focus on the modern science more in each chapter as a way to compare it to his theories of Sumerian knowledge. Although the last two chapters contain some speculation of (then) current events they don’t diminish from Sitchin the achievement of staying focused so as to bring new readers to his books.
  
  Essentially Genesis Revisited is a book that allowed Zecharia Sitchin to reach new readers who had not heard of his previous books as well show is long time readers new evidence that confirmed what he had been writing about. Although the book’s science is now dated, for those interested in ancient astronauts it’s something they might want to check out.
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  Benjamin Atkinson

  Genesis Revisited, like The 12th Planet, has an impressive array of scholarship on display. Sitchin is a Russian who moved to Palestine after living in Israel. He currently works and lives in NY, NY. He can read, write, and speak Sumerian. He can read Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. In other words, he and I have taken similar paths in life. (lol)He is a distinguished scholar of all things Near East and, obviously, the history of humanity in antiquity. I enjoy the Ancient Astronaut theory, however, I would classify most of the content as a guilty pleasure.
  Zecharia Sitchin makes some extremely bold and ou0tlandish assertions regarding the origin of our evolution. I respect Sitchin's indefatigable research and concrete data collection and analysis to back up his claims. This book is not for everyone. If you like watching Ancient Aliens on television or have read "Chariots of the Gods", and want to go MUCH deeper; and admittedly that would not be difficult, then Genesis Revealed will be a deeply satisfying alternative historical speculation. Why not five stars, because as good as the scholarship is Sitchin is not always the most compelling wordsmith.
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  Dan

  this book is the most compelling read that could also be considered to be written by a quack. Stichin claims that humans are a hybrid species developed by an alien life form thousands of years ago. Build originally as slaves to work gold mines in Africa, we were eventually left on our own. He describes a planetary collision with a planet of our solar system that has a 3000 year solar orbit that created earth and the asteroid belt. There is much, much more where that comes from. But again, it's strangely compelling and is fun to contemplate and talk about while being total conjecture at the same time.
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  Colin

  Guilty pleasure reading: theories that ancient tales of the gods are actually accounts of visitation by aliens to our world.
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  Mark

  Zecharia Sitchin claims in Genesis Revisited that human being's were bioengineered by extra terrestrials for use in the mining of precious metals. The author proves himself a capable researcher and linguist throughout the book, as he interprets Sumerian, Babylonian, and Hebrew myths surrounding the creation of man. Sitchin asserts that the stories of Genesis in the bible were rewritten from the earlier Babylonian stories, which were themselves rewritten from the originals in Sumer. According to Sitchin, the names for these alien masters in Sumerian were the "Annunaki," who had vastly superior technology which they used to instruct the fledgling human race on science, astronomy, law and everything else that became the cornerstone for human societies down to the present day. The Annunaki reside on a planet called Nibiru which only comes into orbit in our galaxy every 3600 years. It sounds crazy but Sitchin does a good job supporting his arguments.
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  Jennifer Sullivan

  If I could give this book A MILLION STARS I would ;-)
  
  If you are interested in the true origin of man, you MUST read this book.
  
  The title, Genesis Revisited, is a reference to the Book of Genesis - the first book in the Holy Bible which purports to explain the beginning of life on Earth as we know it.
  
  You don't have to be a scholar to understand that the Bible is a fictitious volume of made up, doctored fairy tales to support a corrupt hierarchy. This book provides solid evidence to back that up ;-)
  
  Ever hear the term "modern technology?" Maybe it isn't as modern as you think ;-)
  
  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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  Jessi

  Genesis Revisited was a let down but perhaps not in the way that may be assumed. I enjoy the late Zecharia Sitchin’s work and his translations of the ancient Sumerian creation texts yet Genesis Revisited just felt like an updated version of The 12th Planet with some things missing and some “new” evidence put in its place.
  
  To keep it short and sweet it’s an “I told you so” to mainstream science but knowing there wouldn’t be a response from the people in ivory towers. Don’t get me wrong there is some interesting tidbits but not enough to basically rewrite The 12th Planet and give it a new title.
  
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  Argyros Singh

  Questo libro si concentra in particolare sulle scoperte astronomiche degli anni Ottanta del Novecento, viste da Sitchin come una 'riscoperta' di conoscenze già note ai Sumeri, sulla scia di spiegazioni che l'Autore aveva già proposto in precedenti pubblicazioni.
  In tal senso, la lettura odierna sconta un precoce invecchiamento, alla luce degli ultimi aggiornamenti nel settore. Anche considerando che qui Sitchin non introduce molte nuove interpretazioni dei testi mesopotamici, limitandosi a far aderire l'attualità alle sue teorie.
  Per questa ragione, oggi è forse più utile andare a leggere i suoi libri precedenti, a partire da 'Il pianeta degli dèi'.
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  Valentin Ilie

  I nice story, about some extraterrestrials that they came on earth, to mine gold, too fix their ozon layer to save their home planet. They where so advance tehnologicaly, but they where to lazy to do the job and they came with they ideea to create a primitiv worker. They mix treir DNA with a homo sapien that they found here on this planet ( earth ) and "we" are the result of that internevention. Nibiru their home planet (the 10th planet of solar sistem ), spins around the Sun each 3600 earth years. They visited our planet for a very long time.
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  Tom Hughes

  Another Sitchin must read
  
  This book connects all of the Earth Chronicle books with discoveries that modern science is just learning that the ancient Sumerians knew thousands of years ago.
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  Alan Kraskow

  I'm big fan of Sitchin. I love his works, but I look at them more, as an inspiration for my own fantasy/sci-fi novels, so not taking it too serious.
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  Seth Tward

  I will continue to eat this shit up like it’s a steak dinner
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  Omid Mankoo

  Zachariah Sitchins books are detailed with actual translations of Ancient Cuniform (clay tablet) writings. They are Sumerian Writings , the language which brought about Aramaic, which in turn brought about Hebrew and Arabic. He is an Archeologist, and ancient script interpreter/translator. He delves into ancient texts, and clay tablet writtings, religious scriptures, artifacts, and drawings & visits museums, and sights of actual historical significance mentioned in various world scriptures, to get an up-close, hands on grasp of what happened. His books are filled with historical facts, with awesome translations, actual pictures of the cuniforms themselves, many of which are pictorial in nature (they appear in his books). Each of the books is a veritable treasure-house of knowledge, of scientific breakthroughs into understanding what has happened in ancient civilizations, regarding gods (alien races), and their meaning present in our scriptures today.
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  Kim

  Wow... a must read for those trying to understand the history of Mankind. Sitchen puts together a solid case that humankind has not only been visited by an ancient race of highly advanced beings, that they may have been here as long as modern humans have. In fact they may be the "missing" link between our cave dwelling kin and homo-sapiens. Sitchen is a world renowned linguistic expert in ancient languages, specifically the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumeria. Over 10,000 years ago, when mankind was still in the hunter/gathering stage of evolution, a city was born, Ur. In that walled city there was a structured government that ruled over teachers, scientists and astronomers. Something changed the course of evolution in a dramatic way. This book starts to break the surface on a subject that mainstream researchers will not broach as it changes everything we have come to "believe" about the history and evolution of man.
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  Alicia

  Sitchin is well known for his beyond mainstream writings concerning the origins of humans on earth. After reading this book, I felt that I probably should have read earlier ones he had written first. Mainly because he referred to one of those books several times. I find out of the normal theories very interesting and after getting through the first few chapters where he got a bit too detailed in his comparison with Sumerian writings, I found the rest of his thoughts and explanations fascinating. This is a deep book and may not be interesting to anyone who does not want something along this vein of thought. I will most likely now read more of Sitchin's work just because I would like more information on his thought processes.
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  Rachella Pruitt

  You'll never look at Genesis, or the Bible the same way again. I've always thought it was odd that there were TWO stories of the creation of Adam, and there's all these references to 'gods'. Also, the Lord just seems to be walking around and talking like a person. This book gives as good of a reason as any other for these instances. Also, reading the Bible straight through, 'god' of the old testament seemed to have most of the same 'flaws' that we do. Even though this book doesn't talk about that, it's explanation of the Genesis story from older texts really makes sense why 'God' would act that way.
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  vahid

  This book tries to revisit the book of Genesis and the rest of the bible by considering new scientific discoveries.
  Zacharia Sitchin is a well known Archelogist who is one of the few experts in old cultures and scriptures of Sumerian, Metsopotamian, Akkadian, Assyrian and ...
  As he tells us, he is a reporter who can brings us too many unknown information from very ancient time.
  
  Zacharia Sitchin is known as the writer of famous series of Earth Chronicles (including 6 books) which are containing lot of breath taking information about our past to our future.