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We know that the Bible creation stories had their origins in far older tales. These stories strongly match the Old Testament and originate from clay tablets discovered in ancient Sumeria and Babylonia. They are the oldest preserved stories the world has ever known, revealed in this interesting book and passed down for many centuries before being adopted by whoever wrote the Old Testament. It seems the Word of God may not have come in its entirety from God, but gods. It is important that the earliest sources of our belief systems be examined. That is the purpose of this book.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... finally cast ont of God's universe, and the complete victory of the t}od of Light shall be for ever consummated. Thus the Cycle of Scripture comes full circle, and in manifestly designed harmony the solemn note sounded in its opening chapter dies away in the closing scene of the great Drama, re-echoed in a higher key. Across the ages of the world's history "Deep calleth unto Deep"--TShom to Tehom (Ps. xlii. 7)--ere it disappears and sinks for ever into the eternal calm. 8. The Watery Hades--Tartaros.--Akin to Tiamat, the watery waste, in the Babylonian mythology was Ea, "the Spirit of the Deep,"1 who eventually came to be identified with another divinity, of similar attributes, Mul-lilr the mighty lord of the ghost-world or Hades.2 Ea, the encircling oceanstream, "the water under the earth," was easily confused with the underworld beyond and beneath, to which it was believed to form the entrance. As inferits passed over into in/emus, sothe world of .Ea became the realm of Hades. It was Mul-lil, "the Gbost-lord,"* who according to the tablets caused the waters of the flood to come up upon the earth and destroy mankind,3 which shows how much he and deadly sting (1 Cor. xv. 55), which is Hosea's figure of Hades (Lxx. xiii. 14.) 1 Ziapsu (Sayce, Hib. Led., 233). - Sayce, Hib. Led., 145, 359. 3 "May he exorcise the sea-monster of Chaos" is part of a prayer to Ea. The queen of the infernal region, Allat, "lady of the lower abyss," was sometimes known as Tamti, thejprimordial deep (Lenormant, Chald. Magic, 116). Ea had in common. Both alike exercised control over the world of waters, both alike were lords of the monsters of the underworld, whether they be dragons and serpents as in the one case, or ghosts and demons as in the other. The ancient...
These studies take up several themes that the author has pursued in addition to his work on witchcraft literature and Gilgamesh. The volume contains general articles on Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology; studies, synchronic and diachronic, on Akkadian prayers; treatments of literary classics; comparative studies of terms and phenomena; and examinations of legal texts.
Excerpt from Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs: "Tehom and Tiamat," "Hades and Satan," a Comparative Study of Genesis I. 2 The Higher Criticism, whatever mistakes it may have made in details, has at least obtained this clear result, that the human or subjective element in the Bible is now more fully recognised than heretofore. Igs ratignfi proved to be not so much the mecha nical conveyance of new ideas and unknown facts to a passive automaton whose business is to register the revelation, as a certain divine in uence which directs human researches and assimilates human modes of thought, freeing them from error, elevating them to WP spiritual level, and utilising them for the impartation of divine truth. First that which is 'natural, then that which 'is Spiritual. God's word to man, if it is to be intelligible, must come in terms of humanity. Speaking to Hebrews, He must clothe His revelation in such figures Of speech and familiar modes of thought as would be level to the Hebrew understanding.' And they, like every other people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."