The End Times?

[1sickbastard]

That's one way of putting it.

But then I'm still scratching my head over the concept of there being books in the 28th century B.C.E.

Text of an Assyiran tablet from the 28th century BCE.

There is a bit of a difference between a book and a clay tablet.

I'd love to see a citation of that particular Assyrian tablet.

 

[phrodeau]

The quote is at least 90 years old.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q...uote-about-unruly-kids-written-by-an-assyrian

 

[1sickbastard]

The quote is at least 90 years old.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q...uote-about-unruly-kids-written-by-an-assyrian

cool.

thnx

 

[Mattswanders]

28th century BCE is almost two millennia older than Genesis.

 

[1sickbastard]

28th century BCE is almost two millennia older than Genesis.

Yeah. The point of Phrodeau's last post was that the quote was a hoax (hey, an almost rhyme!).
sr71plt's point was that a 2800BCE reference to "writing a book" should have been an obvious clue to said hoax.

Writing at the 28th century BCE was pretty well focused around either accounting or codes of law. Fiction & storytelling for was still the domain of poets working in an oral tradition.

Yeah, I derped the 'writing a book' bit as well.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Yeah. The point of Phrodeau's last post was that the quote was a hoax (hey, an almost rhyme!).
sr71plt's point was that a 2800BCE reference to "writing a book" should have been an obvious clue to said hoax.

Writing at the 28th century BCE was pretty well focused around either accounting or codes of law. Fiction & storytelling for was still the domain of poets working in an oral tradition.

Yeah, I derped the 'writing a book' bit as well.

True. Gilgamesh was around 700 years later, and I don't know of fiction or storytelling before that.

 

[phrodeau]

Yeah. The point of Phrodeau's last post was that the quote was a hoax (hey, an almost rhyme!).
sr71plt's point was that a 2800BCE reference to "writing a book" should have been an obvious clue to said hoax.

Writing at the 28th century BCE was pretty well focused around either accounting or codes of law. Fiction & storytelling for was still the domain of poets working in an oral tradition.

Yeah, I derped the 'writing a book' bit as well.

Hoax or not, it proves that people were saying such things long ago, and despair about the current situation is nothing new.

Armageddon, Apocalypse, Rapture and similar eschatologies have only been articulated in Protestant churches in the last two hundred years. Prior to that, the Biblical references were assumed to refer to events in history, or what happens after an individual dies.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/08/08/234333/-History-of-Rapture-Doctrine#

 

[1sickbastard]

Hoax or not, it proves that people were saying such things long ago, and despair about the current situation is nothing new.

Armageddon, Apocalypse, Rapture and similar eschatologies have only been articulated in Protestant churches in the last two hundred years. Prior to that, the Biblical references were assumed to refer to events in history, or what happens after an individual dies.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/08/08/234333/-History-of-Rapture-Doctrine#

Here's an interesting link to a condensed history of apocalyptic movements in western culture: http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm.

Interesting to note the aforementioned Assyrian clay tablet is mentioned first, with Asimoz's "Book of Facts" (1979) listed as the source.

Each listing gives a reference for it's source, but very few have hyperlinks or complete titles. The bibliography is listed on a separate page (there is a link), but I've not checked any of those sources.

 

[about_average]

Hoax or not, it proves that people were saying such things long ago, and despair about the current situation is nothing new.

Well, at least one person got the point.