New archaeological finds add to the debate on the hypothesis that the Mountain Har Karkom, in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, can be identified with the biblical Mount Sinai. The area is the north of the Sinai peninsula, between Eilat and Gaza, inside the state of Israel, in the area which still preserves today the biblical name of Negev. We first visited Har […]
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MOUNT SINAI AND THE LUNAR GOD SIN – Emmanuel ANATI
“But new finds seem to project towards a new perspective of interpretation. We refer primarily to the dedicatory tumulus to the lunar God Sin. This monument, on the grounds of the flint finds discovered in the course of the excavation, can be dated to an early phase of the Early Bronze Age, which is probably […]
GODS, DEMONS ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY ANICENT SUMERIAN
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SUMER AND THE BIBLE
1. The Creation of the World according to writings’ of Sumer AN shared the universe between two of its sons : NUDIMMUD the god of the sky, and ENLIL his favorite son, who received the supreme authority after that of his Father AN.He reigned over his kingdom that the Sumerians compared to a high mountain… On the mountain of the […]
Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future by Joshua J. Mark:
Imagine something that has never been thought of before. If one holds a book in one’s hands, one can imagine an e-book, a large-print book, a picture book, all kinds of books. But how does one imagine a book in a world where even the concept of a `book’ does not exist? Imagine a day […]
LEGENDS OF BABYLON AND EGYPT IN RELATION TO HEBREW TRADITION
LECTURE I—EGYPT, BABYLON, AND PALESTINE, AND SOME TRADITIONAL ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION At the present moment most of us have little time or thought to spare for subjects not connected directly or indirectly with the war. We have put aside our own interests and studies; and after the war we shall all have a certain amount […]