No matter your age or even if you think you know it all, I think its important to stay learning throughout your life. Knowledge & Education is endless. Great lecture.
This is my favorite video of the series. Yesterday I decided to go back to it and have it playing on my headphones as I drifted asleep. It cuased me to have the weirdest dreams about cuneiform languages and the book 'the richest man in babylon' for some reason. It was nice. Sorry about the english, I'm Brazilian
I have been studying the Bible as allegory and I have come to the conclusion that the creation story is an allegory about the development of Sumerian writing with "man" being created from clay and this is why the world had "four corners". Having also determined that "water" is a metaphor for writings, the "flood" can then be understood as an allegory about the world created in Cuneiform being destroyed and reborn in the Phoenician alphabet. This helps to explain why a Sumerian legend was given a prominent place aboard the "Ark" since it identifies the world from from which Noah came. The apparent sprinkling of other Sumerian legends throughout the Books of Moses also indicates that these books represent the Ark itself. The story of how Moses was named also is connected to "water" so I also strongly suspect that Biblical Egypt was intended as a metaphor for Sumeria and the enslaved Hebrews were actually the Akkadians.
Cuneiform is a writing system, not a language; so 'cuneiform languages' is not a taxonomic expression of any validity. It was used to write language completely unrelated to one another in terms of language families.
CadaverSplatter, Quite quickly, after the discovery of large quantities of Cuneiform, the linguists concluded this was not a writing system invented for a Semitic language. It was borrowed from someone else. Now we know that the Semites came with Sargon, around 2,300 BC, and there followed a long period of shifting power between the linguistic groups. Tower of Babel if you like. 'By 1850, however, Edward Hincks came to suspect a non-Semitic origin for cuneiform. Semitic languages are structured according to consonantal forms, whereas cuneiform, when functioning phonetically, was a syllabary, binding consonants to particular vowels. Furthermore, no Semitic words could be found to explain the syllabic values given to particular signs.[32] Julius Oppert suggested that a non-Semitic language had preceded Akkadian in Mesopotamia, and that speakers of this language had developed the cuneiform script.' Wiki.
While the linguist in me longs to agree with you, he does acknowledge that cuneiform was used to write multiple languages, so he's using the admittedly confusing shorthand of referring to both written and spoken languages just as language. In a sense this happens colloquially even with living languages, there are half a dozen (or more) spoken languages in China, but there is a single (more or less) Chinese written language. He's not being inaccurate, just imprecise.
21:45 These endings could indicate that the text was written in the person of a woman, but it could have been written by men too. How did they realize that it was women who wrote such texts? Men could have simply written about women or at the dictation of women, then the texts were from women, but written by men anyway.
No matter your age or even if you think you know it all, I think its important to stay learning throughout your life. Knowledge & Education is endless. Great lecture.
So well put. Everything you think you know ot you finda while new subject you know nothing about.
This is my favorite video of the series. Yesterday I decided to go back to it and have it playing on my headphones as I drifted asleep. It cuased me to have the weirdest dreams about cuneiform languages and the book 'the richest man in babylon' for some reason. It was nice. Sorry about the english, I'm Brazilian
No need to apologize for your English. It's very good.
Wes Cecil a true teacher inciting the habit of wanting to learn.
I really like this series on Language and literature. Great job, and thanks for sharing them.
Which can first, the chicken or the egg? Which epic came first?
How about the Clovis First and how archaeologists said to not dig below Clovis First level. But of course once they did they found more stuff.
I have been studying the Bible as allegory and I have come to the conclusion that the creation story is an allegory about the development of Sumerian writing with "man" being created from clay and this is why the world had "four corners". Having also determined that "water" is a metaphor for writings, the "flood" can then be understood as an allegory about the world created in Cuneiform being destroyed and reborn in the Phoenician alphabet. This helps to explain why a Sumerian legend was given a prominent place aboard the "Ark" since it identifies the world from from which Noah came. The apparent sprinkling of other Sumerian legends throughout the Books of Moses also indicates that these books represent the Ark itself.
The story of how Moses was named also is connected to "water" so I also strongly suspect that Biblical Egypt was intended as a metaphor for Sumeria and the enslaved Hebrews were actually the Akkadians.
+Warren Smith No more weed for you.
The synopsis of Gilgamesh really hit home to me...!!!
great presentation, it would have been nice to see the visual aids he used.
Cuneiform is a writing system, not a language; so 'cuneiform languages' is not a taxonomic expression of any validity. It was used to write language completely unrelated to one another in terms of language families.
CadaverSplatter,
Quite quickly, after the discovery of large quantities of Cuneiform, the linguists concluded this was not a writing system invented for a Semitic language. It was borrowed from someone else. Now we know that the Semites came with Sargon, around 2,300 BC, and there followed a long period of shifting power between the linguistic groups. Tower of Babel if you like.
'By 1850, however, Edward Hincks came to suspect a non-Semitic origin for cuneiform. Semitic languages are structured according to consonantal forms, whereas cuneiform, when functioning phonetically, was a syllabary, binding consonants to particular vowels. Furthermore, no Semitic words could be found to explain the syllabic values given to particular signs.[32] Julius Oppert suggested that a non-Semitic language had preceded Akkadian in Mesopotamia, and that speakers of this language had developed the cuneiform script.'
Wiki.
While the linguist in me longs to agree with you, he does acknowledge that cuneiform was used to write multiple languages, so he's using the admittedly confusing shorthand of referring to both written and spoken languages just as language. In a sense this happens colloquially even with living languages, there are half a dozen (or more) spoken languages in China, but there is a single (more or less) Chinese written language. He's not being inaccurate, just imprecise.
Thanks, Larry.
The picture shown is not cunieform
Don't be noisy when I'm trying to sleep or you'll make the gods angry. 🚰🔜😓
21:45 These endings could indicate that the text was written in the person of a woman, but it could have been written by men too. How did they realize that it was women who wrote such texts? Men could have simply written about women or at the dictation of women, then the texts were from women, but written by men anyway.
bravo!
The illustration is of pictographic symbols with possible cunieform comments. Not the best illustration
I could not understand a word - it sounds like a recording from inside a tin can, really wanted to learn from this but gave up. Hence thumbs down,
I rally wanted to read your comment, but it looks like it was written in Arkadian by a kindergartener, hence the thumbs down.
Your comment indicates that you cut holes into a tin can to funnel the sound from your speakers, therefore thumbs down.
U stink
Terrible comment.
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All that at the beginning and unwilling to admit we're Roman. He must be Jewish.
@Sarah Asaad Those who speak an ElaTen (Latin) language, and or those who do business with those who speak ELaten.