Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 94% confidenceA lecture by the curator who actually read the tablet, hosted by the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures; expert, funny and grounded in the primary source.
What you'll learn
Irving Finkel of the British Museum tells how he decoded a cuneiform tablet describing a round ark, and what Mesopotamian flood stories reveal about the Genesis account.
Video by The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of 2015-16 Lectures, ISAC from the Past, Featured Videos