Great Questions Seminar - HUMA 1301 - Making Connections Assignment: Early Civilization

Video from ACC's Kanopy Database
Summary: Where did ancient Babylonians believe the world came from? What startling similarities does their account have with the Bible's? Explore these and other questions in this look at the Enuma Elish, a sophisticated creation story (or cosmogony) that casts the average Babylonian as a mere afterthought in the eyes of the gods. *ACC Login Required

An article on the Enuma Elish from Gale Virtual Reference Library database. This article provides background information on the Enuma Elish. *ACC Login Required

Online full text of the Epic of Gilgamesh translated by William Muss-Arnolt (1901).

From the Avalon Project of the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.

"This online text of the Rigveda derives from the highly important Rig Veda: a Metrically Restored Text, by Barend A. van Nooten and Gary B. Holland, published in 1994 by Harvard University Press; van Nooten and Holland's edition, as the first attempt to present the poems in their entirety in the poetic form in which they were composed, constituted a watershed in Rigvedic scholarship, but it has been out of print for several years." Provided by the UT Austin Linguistics Research Center.