商品簡介
They appeared out of nowhere in about 5,000 BC. Their language is related to no other known language, yet they built cities, educational systems and libraries and influence others to do so. The Sumerians were most certainly powerful, but few acknowledge their achievements or their continuing influence. Dickin (geology, McMaster U.) places such biblical accounts as creation, the Fall, the Flood and the Tower of Babel squarely within Mesopotamia, particularly the Mesopotamia of the Sumerians, by examining geological, archeological and historical evidence. He pays particular attention to how the Sumerian religious system influenced Judeo-Christian scripture and tradition, locating events such as the Fall and concepts such as a triune God as Sumerian long before they became Semitic. The result reflects Dicken's lifelong interest in tracing the roots of religion and civilization through scientific evidence. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Alan Dickin is Professor of Geology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where he has taught for the past twenty years. He is the author of many scientific papers on Geochronology, as well as a graduate-level textbook Radiogenic Isotope Geology, (1995 and 2005). His new book Pagan Trinity - Holy Trinity: The Legacy of the Sumerians in Western Civilization is the result of his lifelong interest in the relationship between the biblical story of origins in Genesis, and geological, archaeological, and historical evidence for the origins of human civilization.
