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January 31, 2008
OK. So something else you should know about me is that I am an avid reader, and love to just sit back with a good book and let time slip by for hours.
Currently I am reading Stephen Mitchell’s New English Version of Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh is one of histories oldest stories, and whether the accounts are mythological, or exaggerated from real events doesn’t really matter. The story is great.
Gilgamesh was king of Uruk (in the Mesopotamian valley) in or around 2750 B.C.E. and the story that unfolds between him and his greatest friend Enkidu is exciting, touching, enraging and heartbreaking.
I really recommend Mitchell’s version, as other versions i have read have been very hard to follow and since I am not sure there are too many of us who can read ancient Samarian, you sort of have to use a translation. Maybe that would be a good goal for this year… to learn ancient Samarian…
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