Did the BIBLE PLAGIARIZE??

Mesopotamia and the Bible - Intertextuality, or Plagiarism?

When people find that there's a flood narrative that bears a striking resemblance to Noah's flood in Genesis, but that was written considerably earlier than the Biblical account, they often level an accusation of plagiarism at the Biblical authors. In this video, I attempt to explain why 'plagiarism' is an anachronistic term for this relationship, and introduce to to the idea of intertextuality!
Also, I spent 40 minutes drawing those birds...so be nice ;)

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Books by Digital Hammurabi Press (purchasing a book REALLY helps):
Learn to Read Sumerian! https://tinyurl.com/ycdtn8ay
Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery? https://tinyurl.com/yad3e26g
Learning to Pray in a Dead Language: Education and Invocation in Ancient Mesopotamia (COMING SOON)

Bibliography:
Averbeck, R. 2004. Ancient Near Eastern Mythography as It Relates to Historiography in the
Hebrew Bible: Genesis 3 and the Cosmic Battle, in J. K. Hoffmeier and A. Millard, ‘The Future of
Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions, The Proceedings of a
Symposium August 12-14, 2001 at Trinity International University’, p. 328-356.
Black et al, 2004. Literature of Ancient Sumer.
Frymer-Kensky, T. 1977. The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of
Genesis 1-9, ‘The Biblical Archaeologist’, vol. 40 no. 4, p. 147-155. (https://bit.ly/2lNhlRc)
Lambert, W. G. 1965. A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis, ‘The Journal of
Theological Studies’, vol. 16 no. 2, p. 287-300.
Lambert, W. G. and A. R. Miller, 1969. Atra-Hasis. The Babylonian Story of the Flood.
Westermann, C. 1994. Genesis 1-11, A Continental Commentary. Esp. p. 399-401.
Sumerian flood narrative - https://bit.ly/2mbqMKN
Atrahasis - https://bit.ly/2lPaF55

Online resources and image credits:
Met Museum Atrahasis tablet - https://bit.ly/2meRwdJ
Met Museum Flood Stories - https://bit.ly/2njP3yQ
Penn Museum Sumerian flood tablet - https://bit.ly/2mndyL6
British Museum Gilgamesh tablet - https://bit.ly/2nQHOyo

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For general information and sources relating to the Ancient Near East, we recommend these websites:
ABZU - https://bit.ly/2Cr1A8u (collection of free and open-access data)
University of Chicago Oriental Institute - https://bit.ly/2RcIiMl (great collection of free books and articles)
Livius.org - https://bit.ly/2Gzj5rx (general encyclopedia on the ancient world)
ETCSL - https://bit.ly/2QJsAZS (Sumerian literature)
ORACC - https://bit.ly/2QJsL7u (collection of projects relating to Mesopotamia)
EPSD - https://bit.ly/2PY99aw (Online Sumerian dictionary)
CDLI - https://cdli.ucla.edu (Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative)

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Music: Brak Bnei Original Composition

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