Well it’s all done but the crying! I finished my final project this morning for Akkadian, and that class is now done with. It resulted in some very cool learning, many sleepless nights, and several people questioning my mental health as I trudged through this class with a stupid and excited grin on my face. Sure there were times where I wanted to through the whole thing out the window and just be done with it. I’m glad I didn’t, because I finished the class. As Rhino the Hamster says in the movie “Bolt”: You can do the impossible, IF YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!
Like Rhino, Hammurabi was pretty much of the same opinion of himself. He thought he was pretty awesome. For my final in this class, I had to translate his Sippur wall inscription. See, long before there were blogs, people took clay tablets and little styluses and spent long hours writing various things out. Centuries later Archaeologists uncover these things and get excited, even if it’s some long dead persons shopping list. Hammurabi’s Wall inscription was full of self-glory and praise to false god’s. He takes a paragraph to describe himself as “Hammurabi, the mighty king, the king of Babylon, the king of the four world regions (i.e. the universe), the Creator of the land, the king whose deeds are pleasing to Shamash and Marduk (false gods)” it goes on. He mentions how he even “dug the Euphrates to Sippur” and that he “raised the walls of the city as a great mountain” and founded Sippur and Babylon to be the eternal dwelling place of peace.
Whatever, Hammurabi. There is more pretentiousness found on one tablet of his than you can find in an entire Starbucks cafe. (Note: I love going to Starbucks, but I think some people go because they are supposed to. I don’t, I go because I HAVE to. Big difference 
I learned more than just Akkadian in this class. There were many interesting historical things as well. We translated a very small portion of Sennacherib’s Prism, in which he relates how he laid siege to Jerusalem and King Hezekiah. As you may imagine, Sennacherib tells the story from a different perspective, and leaves out a few details that the Bible mentions. We translated a bit written by Nebuchadnezzar, The Flood Epic from Gilgamesh, and some of Hammurabi’s Law Code.
But it’s over now. All done with classes (until my module starts on Monday . I will be taking another Hebrew class, and then the following week I will take Israel in Prophecy, which sounds like it will be very interesting indeed. But this class, this class has been wonderful. Monday afternoon I got together with the other two people in the class to go over our final. I mentioned how much I’ve loved this class and my friend in the class told me: “You are a sick person. You need help!”
Well we always knew this to be true, right? Now we have proof.
so how many laguages do you know now? Must be adozen or so becasue YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!