Word: izdubar
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Semitic Seminary. Izdubar. Mr. M. L. Kellner. Sever...
...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Izdubar. Mr. M. L. Kellner. Sever...
...impression made by such records when taken in connection with the art remains is that of enormous power and enterprise. The politics of western Asia pass before us like a mighty panorama. The products of the imagination are partly mythical and partly legendary. The great poem known as the Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There are also tablets recording the adventures of the goddess of love, the story of creation and the wars of the god. From the religion...
...wish to call particular attention to the Assyrian reading to be given this evening by Prof. Lyon in Sever Hall. The poem to be read is the oldest existing epic, and has been discovered only in the last ten years. The interest centres chiefly about Izdubar, who has many points in common with the Bibical Nimrod with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches...
Prof. Lyon lectures at 12 M. today in Divinity Hall Upper Lecture Room, on Assyrian Antiquities. The special subject is: The Izdubar Legends (continued). Chaldean Account of the Deluge...