RE: The Tower of Babel
November 3, 2015 at 3:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2015 at 3:18 am by Minimalist.)
Quote: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.
Goodness, I HATE having to correct you clowns on your bullshit all the time. Your silly bible specifies that Abram was from Ur of the Chaldeans ( Gen 11, 31) The antiquity of Ur and the rest of Sumeria was unknown.
The Chaldeans did not arrive in the region until sometime after 1,000 BC. In this particular case, your book is actually giving better information than you would like. Ironic, isn't it?
Anyway, we don't need your bible to learn the history of the region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldea
Quote:Chaldaea, was a small Semitic nation that emerged between the late 10th and early 9th century BC, surviving until the mid 6th century BC, after which it disappeared as the Chaldean tribes were absorbed into the native population of Babylonia.[2] It was located in the marshy land of the far southeastern corner of Mesopotamia, and briefly came to rule Babylon.
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