Daily Data: Sumerian King List

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Channel: Digital Hammurabi · 2018 · Entertainment

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Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Dr. Josh examines the similarities between Genesis 1 and the Sumerian King List, exploring what the texts are doing and why such long lives are attributed to pre-Flood individuals.

Image credits:
Prism with the SKL - https://tinyurl.com/ycq7nhjr

More information: 
Full translation of the SKL - https://tinyurl.com/y94du5x6

For general information and sources relating to the Ancient Near East, we recommend these websites:

http://www.etana.org/abzubib - collection of free and open-access data
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/orie... - University of Chicago Oriental Institute, great collection of free books and articles
http://www.livius.org - general encyclopedia on the ancient world
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk - Mesopotamian literature
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu - collection of projects relating to Mesopotamia
http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/neps... - Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
https://cdli.ucla.edu - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

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