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...accomplish this goal, D’Agata included essays from Ziusudra, William Blake, Matsuo Basho, Clarice Lispector, and Jonathan Swift, among others, and he explained that such writers respected the essay as an art form...
...civilized people, they usually pick the Sumerians, who built imposing cities, including Abraham's Ur of the Chaldees, in southern Mesopotamia about 3000 B.C. But the Sumerians did not think of themselves as native Mesopotamians: according to their legends, they came from a place called Dilmun, where lived Ziusudra, the sole survivor of the Flood. Last week Danish archaeologists were digging into the ruins of a city on oil-rich Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf. They think it is Dilmun, the mysterious "home city of the Land of Sumer...
...Ziusudra's Ark. For the bare bones of her account, Author Hill uses the 377 verses of the Bible (Genesis 11:27-25:11). To flesh them out she draws upon The Book of Jubilees, a Hebrew document, probably of the 3rd or 4th century B.C., that purports to be a series of messages about the history of mankind given to Moses by an angel. By far the most interesting elements in the book are provided by the latest diggings in Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...
...built a highly developed civilization of irrigated fields, pastures and theocratic city states. An 8-to-10-ft. deposit of clay from about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from the inundation that would destroy mankind. Like Noah, Ziusudra determined when the waters had subsided by releasing birds from...
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