Re: Reading Genesis literally

In a message dated 5/3/2006 11:18:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dickfischer@verizon.net writes:
Ea, second god in importance, has a number also – 40. Can you see any
significance in that number?
 
Dick,

I have sometimes wondered if Yah is a variant spelling of Ea.

When I was reading Mesopotamian literature, I noticed that there was a
concept sometimes expressed as the "Enlil power", which the various gods could
obtain. When they had it, then it made them supreme. Some stories were concocted
to promote a certain city's own god as being the one who had the Enlil power.
It has been a long time since I read these stories, so I don't remember the
rationale I had at the time, but somehow it led me to wonder if there was a
basis of monotheism behind this polytheism, if Ea was Yah and Enlil was also a
representation of Yah (we do know that Melchizedek referred to El = Enlil and
Abraham was OK with that).

thanks, Dick.

Phil
Received on Wed May 3 19:03:33 2006