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This is part of my series on ancient cosmologies where we will dissect and compare the ancient beliefs from babylon, assyria, the akkadi, the chaldeans, the hebrew mechon mamre, the targums... and many other commentaries on creation, both of the cosmos and mankind.
One part I must mention and disagree with is that the lines of genesis are doubled improperly, i disagree, the holy book is perfect, and forms an amazing, extremely complex form of a poem, it inverts at the halfway mark and is mirrored at the end, it has a special name in poetry and is the most advanced type, with all of everything, the creation, all of time, stars, life, morality, all wisdom - everything - encoded into it. Lenormant uses an amazing array of authors and sources are referenced here, including : The Onkelos Targums,The Johnathean Targums, The Septuagint (from the Latin septuaginta, "seventy") a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek. As the primary Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is also called the Greek Old Testament.
Berosus, also spelled Berossus, Berossos, or Berosos, Akkadian Belreʿušu (flourished c. 290 bc) Chaldean priest of Bel in Babylon who wrote a work in three books (in Greek) on the history and culture of Babylonia dedicated to Antiochus I (c. 324–261 bc). It was widely used by later Greek compilers, whose versions in turn were quoted by religious historians such as Eusebius of Caeserea and Josephus. Thus Berosus, though his work survives only in fragmentary citations, is remembered for his passing on knowledge of the origins of Babylon to the ancient Greeks.
In his first book Berosus described the land of Babylonia, to which the half man-half fish Oannes and other divinities coming out of the sea brought civilization, and told the story of the creation according to the native legend, which led to his account of Chaldean astrology. The second and third books contained the chronology and history of Babylonia and of later Assyria, beginning with the “ten kings before the flood,” then the story of the flood itself, followed by the restoration of kingship with a long line of kings “after the flood,” then “five dynasties,” and finally the late age of history under the Assyrians, the last Babylonian kingdom, and the Persians to their conquest by Alexander the Great. Cuneiform texts written in the Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) language have corroborated several elements of Berosus’ account. The original names of seven of Berosus’ bringers of civilization (Oannes and his brethren) are included in a late-Babylonian tablet found at Uruk (modern Warka). His scheme of chronology and history, although imperfectly preserved in quotations, has been elaborately investigated by modern scholars and compared with the cuneiform literature.
The Mechon Mamre, The Hebrew Bible. the Akkadian, babylonian, assyrian and quite a few more. And of course M. Lenormant himself, From Wiki on Lenormant: François Lenormant (January 17, 1837 in Paris – December 9, 1883 in Paris) was a French assyriologist and archaeologist. Lenormant's father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egyptologist, was anxious that his son should follow in his steps. He made him begin Greek at the age of six, and the child responded so well to this precocious scheme of instruction, that when he was only fourteen an essay of his, on the Greek tablets found at Memphis, appeared in the Revue Archéologique.
In 1856 he won the numismatic prize of the Académie des Inscriptions with an essay entitled Classification des monnaies des Lagides and in 1862 he became sub-librarian of the Institut de France. As early as 1867 he had turned his attention to Assyrian studies; he was among the first to recognize in the cuneiform inscriptions the existence of a non-Semitic language he named Akkadian (today it is known as Sumerian). Lenormant's knowledge was of encyclopaedic extent, ranging over an immense number of subjects, and at the same time thorough. Most of his varied studies were directed towards tracing the origins of the two great civilizations of the ancient world, which were to be sought in Mesopotamia and on the shores of the Mediterranean. By 1881 he'd been named as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Probably the best known of his books are Les Origines de l'histoire d'après la Bible, and his ancient history of the East and account of Chaldean magic. He also contributed articles to the Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines, though he did not live to see the dictionary's completion. For breadth of view, combined with extraordinary subtlety of intuition, he was probably unrivalled.
This is part of my series on ancient cosmologies where we will dissect and compare the ancient beliefs from babylon, assyria, the akkadi, the chaldeans, the hebrew mechon mamre, the targums... and many other commentaries on creation, both of the cosmos and mankind.
One part I must mention and disagree with is that the lines of genesis are doubled improperly, i disagree, the holy book is perfect, and forms an amazing, extremely complex form of a poem, it inverts at the halfway mark and is mirrored at the end, it has a special name in poetry and is the most advanced type, with all of everything, the creation, all of time, stars, life, morality, all wisdom - everything - encoded into it. Lenormant uses an amazing array of authors and sources are referenced here, including : The Onkelos Targums,The Johnathean Targums, The Septuagint (from the Latin septuaginta, "seventy") a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek. As the primary Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is also called the Greek Old Testament.
Berosus, also spelled Berossus, Berossos, or Berosos, Akkadian Belreʿušu (flourished c. 290 bc) Chaldean priest of Bel in Babylon who wrote a work in three books (in Greek) on the history and culture of Babylonia dedicated to Antiochus I (c. 324–261 bc). It was widely used by later Greek compilers, whose versions in turn were quoted by religious historians such as Eusebius of Caeserea and Josephus. Thus Berosus, though his work survives only in fragmentary citations, is remembered for his passing on knowledge of the origins of Babylon to the ancient Greeks.
In his first book Berosus described the land of Babylonia, to which the half man-half fish Oannes and other divinities coming out of the sea brought civilization, and told the story of the creation according to the native legend, which led to his account of Chaldean astrology. The second and third books contained the chronology and history of Babylonia and of later Assyria, beginning with the “ten kings before the flood,” then the story of the flood itself, followed by the restoration of kingship with a long line of kings “after the flood,” then “five dynasties,” and finally the late age of history under the Assyrians, the last Babylonian kingdom, and the Persians to their conquest by Alexander the Great. Cuneiform texts written in the Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) language have corroborated several elements of Berosus’ account. The original names of seven of Berosus’ bringers of civilization (Oannes and his brethren) are included in a late-Babylonian tablet found at Uruk (modern Warka). His scheme of chronology and history, although imperfectly preserved in quotations, has been elaborately investigated by modern scholars and compared with the cuneiform literature.
The Mechon Mamre, The Hebrew Bible. the Akkadian, babylonian, assyrian and quite a few more. And of course M. Lenormant himself, From Wiki on Lenormant: François Lenormant (January 17, 1837 in Paris – December 9, 1883 in Paris) was a French assyriologist and archaeologist. Lenormant's father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egyptologist, was anxious that his son should follow in his steps. He made him begin Greek at the age of six, and the child responded so well to this precocious scheme of instruction, that when he was only fourteen an essay of his, on the Greek tablets found at Memphis, appeared in the Revue Archéologique.
In 1856 he won the numismatic prize of the Académie des Inscriptions with an essay entitled Classification des monnaies des Lagides and in 1862 he became sub-librarian of the Institut de France. As early as 1867 he had turned his attention to Assyrian studies; he was among the first to recognize in the cuneiform inscriptions the existence of a non-Semitic language he named Akkadian (today it is known as Sumerian). Lenormant's knowledge was of encyclopaedic extent, ranging over an immense number of subjects, and at the same time thorough. Most of his varied studies were directed towards tracing the origins of the two great civilizations of the ancient world, which were to be sought in Mesopotamia and on the shores of the Mediterranean. By 1881 he'd been named as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Probably the best known of his books are Les Origines de l'histoire d'après la Bible, and his ancient history of the East and account of Chaldean magic. He also contributed articles to the Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines, though he did not live to see the dictionary's completion. For breadth of view, combined with extraordinary subtlety of intuition, he was probably unrivalled.
