(October 27, 2018 at 9:12 am)Grandizer Wrote: Genesis 10
This passage is referred to as the Table of Nations. Just more genealogy stuff, this one tracing lines of descent from all three of Noah's sons to the clans and nations of the world at the time. No numbers to deal with here. One thing worth mentioning is that this passage mentions a mighty warrior and hunter by the name of Nimrod. Apparently, he's supposed to have been a very popular figure who built cities and all that. It doesn't seem like he's mentioned much elsewhere, though. I'm guessing an earlier and more elaborate account of Nimrod was written down on some ancient tablet that's now lost forever ... or it was a popular oral tradition at the time, but never got penned down.
Just more shit borrowed/stolen from the Assiyrians and Babylonians. The johnny-come-lately jews were much better at plagiarism than at creativity.
Quote:According to Ronald Hendel the name Nimrod is probably a polemical distortion of the god Ninurta, a prominent god in Mesopotamian religion who had cult centers in a number of Assyrian cities such as Kalhu, and also in Babylon, and was a patron god of a number of Assyrian kings.[28] Nimrod's imperial ventures described in Genesis may be based on the conquests of the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I (Dalley et al., 1998, p. 67). Julian Jaynes also indicates Tukulti-Ninurta I (a powerful king of the Middle Assyrian Empire) as the origin for Nimrod.[
