[Hac-announce] RESCHEDULED: What: Sumerian Texts And The Book Of Genesis

[Carol Stone]

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The event originally scheduled for today has been rescheduled to January 
23rd due to the possibility of the storm starting early. We hope to see 
you then!

The second in our series of monthly discussions on "The Bible from the 
Standpoint of Scientific and Historical Analysis," on Saturday, January 
23, 3:00 - 5:00 PM, USNH Library, will be concerned with comparing the 
Creation Story in the book of Genesis with the much older Sumerian myth 
known as "Enuma Elish." We'll be taking a look at the history of 
comparative studies of the texts, together with the role of major 
archeological discoveries in the 19th and 20th centuries. Handouts will 
be distributed.

We'll also watch more of the movie we watched in November!

Additional background reading is available on-line. Here are two 
Wikipedia links:
Enuma Elish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enuma_Elish
Austin Henry Layard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Henry_Layard

Also, a fascinating story about Layard is found in Chapter 21, “Layard: 
A Dilettante Outwits a Pasha,” in Gods, /Graves, and Scholars/, by C. W. 
Ceram.
See the book on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AISN0394743199/humanistassoc-20
Look for the book in Connecticut Public Libraries
http://www.iconn.org/FindALibraryInConnecticut.aspx?cat=consortia

-carol stone