Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation
Language: English
Published by Century, Great Britain, 1998
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- Hardcover
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David M. Rohl, Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation. Secondo volume della celebre serie A Test of Time, nella quale l'egittologo e storico britannico David Rohl propone una rilettura radicale della cronologia dell'antico Vicino Oriente e delle origini delle grandi civiltà. Attraverso una vasta documentazione archeologica, storica e biblica, Rohl esplora le connessioni tra Egitto, Mesopotamia, tradizioni veterotestamentarie e miti delle civiltà antiche, sviluppando una delle più note teorie revisioniste dell'archeologia del tardo Novecento. Il volume è riccamente illustrato con: fotografie a colori; mappe; reperti archeologici; siti dell'antico Egitto e del Vicino Oriente; diagrammi e ricostruzioni storiche. Un'opera di grande interesse per appassionati di: archeologia; egittologia; civiltà antiche; storia biblica; storia del Medio Oriente; teorie cronologiche alternative. Dati bibliografici Autore: David M. Rohl Titolo: Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation Serie: A Test of Time - Volume Two Editore: Century / Random House UK Ltd. Luogo di pubblicazione: Londra Anno: 1998 Edizione: First Edition (prima edizione) Lingua: Inglese ISBN: 0-7126-7747-X Rilegatura: Hardcover con sovraccoperta illustrata Condizioni molto buone / quasi ottime. Copertina rigida originale. Sovraccoperta presente e ben conservata. Interni puliti. Fotografie e tavole a colori in eccellente stato. Nessuna annotazione o sottolineatura visibile. Legatura solida. Lievissimi segni di utilizzo compatibili con la normale consultazione. Nel complesso una copia molto ben conservata. Le fotografie costituiscono parte integrante della descrizione. …
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- Title
- Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation
- Author
- Rohl, David
- Publisher
- Century, Great Britain
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 071267747X
- ISBN 13
- 9780712677479
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1,251 grams
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The book is divided into three parts. Firstly, Rohl proposes that Eden and its garden was between Lakes Van and Urmin and the Caspian Sea, with Nod on its east. Then he claims the ancestors of the Sumerians migrated in the 6th millennium BC from this "Eden" to Mesopotamia, establishing Sumerian culture there, and identical with biblical Shem. The Mesopotamian and biblical Flood, he sets in the late 4th millennium BC. In part three, Rohl brings Sumerian traders to East Africa (Punt & Sudan--"Kush"), and Egypt, becoming founders of Pharaonic Egypt, using cultural links c.3000BC.
Rohl needlessly burdens the book with the "new chronology" from his Test of Time of 1995, which is known to be 100 per cent wrong (along with the biblical "identifications") from a mass of contrary factual evidence. Rohl's story is also weakened by unsustainable guesswork on supposed language-links, artificial identifications of early biblical and Mesopotamian characters, etc. It's a lively "read", but much of it is likely to prove fictional, not historical. --Kenneth Kitchen
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