From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 07:38:23 EDT
In a message dated 6/30/03 5:02:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dickfischer@earthlink.net writes:
> The Accadians were the early Adamites and Semites. They knew very well
> that the Sumerians living in the vicinity spoke an unrelated language. The oral
> tradition of Genesis had to stem from this source just as the Hebrew
> language derived from the Accadian language. Yet you think the writer of Genesis
> was ignorant of this simple fact of multiple languages spoken in southern
> Mesopotamia both before and after the flood. Even though you and I are so clever
> we figured it all out. You give the Bible writers too little credit, Paul.
>
>
The story of the tower of babel is an allegory. the lesson is that homogenous
populations are strong and multicultural diverse populations whose disparate
cultures conflict are weak. The Israelis understand this scriptural allegory
which is why they (their conservative government) favors immigration for Jews
to Israel and continues to favor Jews above other inhabitants of the country.
If you read Olmstead's history of the persian empire, you find that babylon
was weakened for cyrus by heavy immigration of aramean speakers and corruption
of the economy under nabu naid iqbi making it ripe for cyrus' conquest which
Jews of babylon predicted.
The head of Babylon's greatest banking family was Jacob (the usurper) Egibi.
I've always wondered about the similarity between egibi and iqbi, but then I'm
not a translator of Babylonian texts. Nabu naid iqbi, the last Babylonian
ruler enraged the babylonian priesthood by neglecting the annual festival and
trying to rebuild the temple of Sin at Harran. Remember Harran. That's where
Abraham sent eliezer for a wife and later Jacob.
rich faussette
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