Today’s free book is one of the classics of Biblical archaeology, The Chaldean Account of Genesis. Wikipedia notes of the author: In 1872, Smith achieved worldwide fame by his translation of the Chaldaean account of the Great Flood, which he read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology on 3 December and whose audience included the…
This is the second of Air Commodore Wiseman’s books that entered the public domain this year. My thanks to Book Aid for providing a copy for digitisation. P.J. Wiseman [1888-1948], New Discoveries in Babylonia About Genesis, 5th ed, 1949. London & Edinburgh: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1936. Hbk. pp.143. [Click to visit the download page…
The works of Air Commodore P.J. Wiseman [1888-1948] enter the public domain this year. This is the first of two of his books that I will be placing online. Air Commodore Wiseman was the father of the biblical archaeologist Professor Donald J. Wiseman. P.J. Wiseman [1888-1948], Creation Revealed in Six Days. The evidence of Scripture…
Professor Archibald Sayce’s Patriarchal Palestine applies the (then) recent archaeological discoveries in Babylonia and Assyria to illustrate the biblical accounts of Genesis. The frontispiece map is particularly helpful, so I have extracted this and made is available as a separate download at various resolutions. This title, kindly provided by Book Aid, is in the public…
