(November 2, 2015 at 10:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Sadly, just more shit stolen from the ancient Mesopotamians.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-leg...bel-001751
Quote:Following his translation of Gilgamesh, Smith was sent to the site of Nineveh where he was to continue excavations in the hopes of unearthing additional inscriptions that paralleled or showed some relation to the Old Testament. Archaeology at the time was a new science, founded on validating the writings of the Bible. Smith was fortunate, in that the excavation did yield additional tablets (from the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal) and upon further research, he did discover a story likely to have inspired the Biblical account of the Tower of Babel. Catalogued and hidden in the inventory vaults of the British Museum, the fragmentary piece of text reads as follows:
[…] them? The father […]
Of him, his heart was evil,
[…] against the father of all the gods was wicked,
[…] of him, his heart was evil,
[…] Babylon brought to subjection,
[small] and great he confounded their speech.
[…] Babylon brought to subjection,
[small] and great he confounded their speech.
Their strong place (tower) all the day they founded;
to their strong place in the night
entirely he made an end.
In his anger also word thus he poured out:
[to] scatter abroad he set his face
he gave this? command, their counsel was confused
[…] the course he broke
[…] fixed the sanctuary
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Damn jews never wrote an original line.... except when they told the people how much of a temple tax they had to pay. Bastards got that part all by themselves!
That's what you would call corroborating testimony.
The account in the Bible was written some 1500 - 2000 years after the fact, not to mention Abraham was from the city of Ur, which WAS in ancient Mesopotamia, who was probably the source of the biblical account.
