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Assyrian Tablets and Genesis

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 30.

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Assyrian Tablets and Genesis

Canon Tristram, speaking at the English Church Congress on recent discoveries in Chaldean literature illustrative of the Mosaic record, said that the story of the creation and fall is told by the Assyrian tablets in legends substantially agreeing with the account in Genesis. These legends are at least two centuries older than Moses. The fifth tablet declares the Sabbath to have been ordained at the creation. Twenty-three points in the Mosaic narrative of the deluge are given in the tablets.