Cradles of Civilization - Gilgamesh l Lessons of Dr. David Neiman
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- Writing is invented in the cities along the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. Once a system is developed, literature flourishes. The first system of writing is a complex of symbols called a "syllabary".
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Dr. David Neiman (1921-2004) was an internationally renowned scholar, speaker, and writer who inspired many people. His life's work concerned the intricate relations between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism throughout history and in modern times. Dr. Neiman made history come alive through his dramatic presentations and unique interpretations. In light of our current world situation, Dr. Neiman's work is not only extremely relevant but also remarkably prescient. More than anything, Dr. Neiman was a keen observer of the human condition. His words convey our shared history with clarity, humor, and humanity.
Dr. Neiman was the first Jewish scholar appointed to teach Religion at Boston College, one of America's leading Catholic Universities. He served as Professor in the Department of Theology for a quarter of a century. While there he was also invited to teach at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. After retiring from Boston College, Dr.Neiman moved to Los Angeles, where he taught at Loyola Marymount University, St. John' s Seminary in Camarillo and the University of Judaism in Bel Air.
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The Sumerian word for uncultivated land was EDIN, rendered in English sometimes as "desert," "wilderness," "the wild," or "steppe." The Akkadian or Babylonian equivalent was Tseru or Seri. However, the Babylonian scribes were fond of sometimes substituting Babylonian words with Sumerian words. This substitution is called a logogram by professional scholars (Assyriologists). The Sumerian logogram for Tseri was EDIN. In the Epic of Gilgamesh we are informed that Enkidu is a naked man, hairy, and of great strength, created of EDIN's clay by the godess Aruru (he has no father or mother) his companions are herbivores, wild bulls and antelope. Like them he eats grass and laps water at watering holes in the EDIN. He encounters one day a naked woman at the watering hole, aroused by her nakedness, he mates with her. When he returns to his beastly companions, they flee from him. In bewilderment, a shunned Enkidu returns to EDIN's Naked woman and accepts her as his new companion of lieu of EDIN's beasts. She is called Shamhat. A Hunter, called Sadu, brought her to EDIN's watering hole, her tasks? (1) She is to replace Enkidu's animal companion with her companionship, via sex. His animals will reject him and then he will accept her as his new companion in lieu of EDIN's beasts. (2) Then she is to persuade him to leave EDIN and meet Gilgamesh at the city of Uruk. She persuades Enkidu to leave EDIN, telling him a better life awaits him at Uruk. After accepting her proposal, she then gives him some of her clothes to wear, whereupon EDIN's naked man comes to realize that it is wrong to be naked in EDIN. Clothed, they leave EDIN for Uruk. Enroute they encounter a camp of shepherds. They offer Enkidu beer and bread, he gapes at this, refusing to consume these items, for as a beast, he knows only to consume grass and water with EDIN's beasts. Shamhat intercedes and tells him to consume the Beer and Bread and he obeys her and does so. Whereupon the shepherds declare Enkidu is no longer a naked hairy animal, he is now like a god, having consumed a god's fare. They present him with a man's robe, befitting a god. Not many readers of the English version of the Epic of Gilgamesh are aware that Enkidu met Shamhat in the EDIN, for it is translated into English as "the wild," or "the wilderness," or "steppe," Professor Morris Jastrow Junior, of the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, proposed in a scholarly Journal in 1898/1899 that Enkidu and Shamhat has been recast as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. For more info Google "Eabani, Ukhat, Izdubar," the names Jastrow knew Enkidu, Shamhat and Gilgamesh by in 1898/1899. All this is to say a Sumerian word, EDIN, was probably recast in Genesis as EDEN. The Babylonians were writing literary compositions in Sumerian as late as the 6th century BC, but as a spoken language, Sumerian had ceased to exist by 2500 BC according to Professor Samuel Noah Kramer.
very nice lecture... I wish I was there...
thank you Mr. David...
Peace from Assyria..
@ChuckSchuldinerRIP0 I had to look that up on Wikipedia. They said there's no evidence for Mu. There is evidence, though, that the Sphinx has been weathered by rain when the area was not a desert, which is 9,500 BC at the earliest estimate
@anabolicErik I think it is rather obvious that the sphinx was initially a lion before some african king had the head of the lion carved into his countenance. The head is now disproportionately small compared to the body. I have also heard that the largest pyramid encases a rock outcropping
@beckyneiman thank you.
Prof. You should check "Tatarlak" writing from Karpathian basin , which is about 2000 prior to sumer
nice lecture
I hope some day soon, they teach computers to read cuneiform. I think the technology is there. Images of the tablets could be fed into it and massive amounts of tablets could be translated hopefully giving us insight. Then again, maybe the tablets have taught most of what we can really know? i dont know....
@ChuckSchuldinerRIP0 I think the wheel probably did exist. I have no answer, though, with regards to how the people of the area could build such a huge statue. Somehow they were able to find out, I believe, how to levitate rock. I saw a nice video about that with regards to this man who used rock levitation technology to build "coral castle" in Florida. Edward Leeksletter or something like that was the dude's name. One of the Masonic Temples in Pennsylvania gives clues on how this is done, too
Gilgamesh had crave himself a statue that has and will last for thousends or ten of thousends of years and that statue is not physical but mental.
@ChuckSchuldinerRIP0 Cool.
so, since this language is akin to turkic, mongolian, and hun, it must also be close to the yiddish language
@sam112212 yeah,it's sumeria.lol
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I'm soooo stupid
The oldest story ever written is a buddy film waiting to be made.
I do not agree with you. Language, writing, mathematics, law, astronomy, and much, much more, was given to man, by the Anunnaki , when select humans were brought from the South, Africa, to serve as workers, slaves and servents for the Anunnaki of Eridu.
@Sarah Asaad, Your time line is off by about 190,000 years. There were NO Europeans at that time.
Akkadians did to the Sumer, the same thing Arabs do to the Europe. History repeat itself and people NEVER learn.
@Sarah Asaad bold of you to think I remember what was this clip about 7 years ago
@Sarah Asaad Racist ? I wasn't racist then and I am not racist now. I didn't say that Arabs inferior in some way. I said that they are invading Europe. How is it racist ??
@@xGrandArcher you are right i totally agree with you
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the first languge is from iraq
Your history may be, but the history of humanity started 115000 years ago, so what are 6000 years in that long history ? Nothing.
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okay. i just watched this video that suggests that the egyptian sphinx was carved out of stone 9000 years BC, or 6000 years before the pyramids of giza were built. i believe this is truth. the evidence is there. all counterclaims by egyptologists are sketchy. how would you, if this is true, explain a 6000 year gap in such civilizations?
Palestine??
Jewish people learn. thats the diffrence.
I believe Dr DavidNeiman is wrong here he says that people can read and speak babylonian?! theres never been a babylonian language
Assyrians & Babylonians spoke Akkadian so what he means must be Akkadian
Kingbabylon117: Yeah your
all this is semitic history Sumerians,Assyrian,Aramaic,Babylonians,Akkadians,Israelies