From: Debbie Mann (deborahjmann@insightbb.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 08:04:16 EDT
And Solomon, the wisest man on earth, was corrupted by wives from other
countries with other religions.
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To: dickfischer@earthlink.net; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: To Concord or Not to Concord
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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