https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/06/12/hobby-lobby-gilgamesh-tablet/

Hobby Lobby is in heat over an ancient Gilgamesh dream tablet. The museum of the Bible in Washington DC opened to the public in November 2017. Its intention was to offer a place where people could view 4,000 years of religious history. Its website, Museum of the Bible, says that it aims to offer visitors an immersive and personal experience of the Bible and its continued impact on the world around us. While that’s an admirable goal, it’s also proven to be somewhat harder to achieve than the owners expected.

The tablet is around 3,600 years old and contains part of the oldest surviving work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh. The tablet is one of a number of ancient Mesopotamian tablets written in cuneiform that tell the tale of Gilgamesh. The particular tablet owned by Hobby Lobby holds a portion of the story in which Gilgamesh is telling his mother about a dream he had.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/2020 08:48AM by anybody.