Ashurbanipal Library and Torah
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 4:42 am
I visited the British Museum yesterday, and was amazed by the Ashurbanipal Library tablet collection. I can't believe I hadn't heard of it sooner!
I'm now looking for scholars, analysis, or resources that study similarity or overlap between the Torah (or really anything on earlyjewishwritings) and the 32,000 clay tablets found at the Ashurbanipal Library, which had all been buried since 652BCE until the 1900's.
There's the Ashurbanipal Library Project website, but I'm struggling to even find a good translation resource for the tablets.
This is the project website:
http://oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/asbp/pager
I feel like "I must be missing something" so any words of guidance would be welcome!
I'm now looking for scholars, analysis, or resources that study similarity or overlap between the Torah (or really anything on earlyjewishwritings) and the 32,000 clay tablets found at the Ashurbanipal Library, which had all been buried since 652BCE until the 1900's.
There's the Ashurbanipal Library Project website, but I'm struggling to even find a good translation resource for the tablets.
This is the project website:
http://oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/asbp/pager
I feel like "I must be missing something" so any words of guidance would be welcome!