Word: sumerian
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...stuff!" the Babylonian reviewers must have said, when the Book of Genesis appeared in their bookstalls. To them the Hebrew Story of Mankind was nothing more than the rehash of an old Sumerian legend which they had learned in their cradles, a sort of Macbeth-out-of-Holinshed affair, lacking even the frankness to acknowledge its source...
...least that is the opinion suggested by a recent discovery. A tablet has been found at Nippur unmistakably antedating the Hebrew epic by ten centuries, and giving in surprisingly similar detail, even to names, the creation and fail of man. Supplemented by other records, a complete Sumerian legend can be constructed, which carries the history of Babylonia up to a flood strangely like that which bore Noah on his famous voyage. Thenceforward, the tale is different, and, as the critics would have said, the Hebrew plagiarism ceases...
Perhaps there is another way, besides literary theft, to account for the coincidences. The scientists may continue their studies, and perhaps uncover a new Ossian scandal; but meanwhile it is safe to make what conjectures our imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable...
...Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, D. D., Lord Bishop of Worcester, England, and Senior Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, left than the announcement comes that another English scholar is to honor an American university with his presence. This time it is Dr. Stephen Langdon, of Oxford University, the noted Sumerian scholar, who has been appointed curator of the Babylonian section of the University of Pennsylvania museum. Dr. Langdon, whose appointment is for one year, expects to spend much of his time in translating and cataloging the many thousand Sumerian and Babylonian tablets in the museum. His acceptance of the appointment...
...Munro; "Lectures on Dante," by Dr. William Boyd-Carpenter, Canon of Westminster Abbey; and the latest volume, NO. XXIV, of the Harvard Studies in Classical philology. A report on the "Harvard Expedition to Samaria," by Dr. G. A. Reisner '89 and a volume of reproductions of the "Sumerian Tablets in the Harvard Semitic Museum," by Miss M. I. Hussey, are to be published shortly...