Sound familiar? – Hammurabi, identified by most Assyriologists with the Amraphel of Genesis 14 , 1, was the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon and reigned for fifty-five years, about 2250 We have a good account of his life and deeds in the Letters which he wrote to Sin-idinnam and in The Chronicle […]
Code of Law by Hammurabi
Hammurabi Laws Precede the Torah – Link to Webpage
10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions – MELLOSON ALLEN*
If you are among the approximately 32 percent of the world population that considers themselves Christian, you were probably raised to believe that the Bible was written in some sort of historical vacuum—the various authors being inspired by God alone and having no outside influences whatsoever. However, the many books that make up the Bible […]
Sweet Phony Moses – Stephen Van Eck*
Intensive study of the Old Testament, reading critically and analytically rather than reverentially and devotionally, casts serious doubt on the historicity of Moses. Now you can point out the lack of extrabiblical evidence for his existence, but this, of course, is unpersuasive to the pious. You can point out the uncanny similarity between the story […]
Sumerian Images
The Ram in the Thicket: Excavated from the Tombs of Ur. For several enlarged views, see Exploration of the Royal Tombs of Ur. Cylinder seals: Cylinder seal impression. A carved stone cylinder was rolled across a wet clay tablet to form an official, individualized seal. This one shows the winged goddess Inanna standing above the sun god Utu as he rises, using a […]
Judaism/Origins/Beginnings – Marc A. Krell* (link)
http://www.patheos.com/Library/Judaism/Origins/Beginnings
Sumerian Swindle pdf*
Sumer
Sumer The Sumerian civilization emerged upon the flood plain of the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers about 4000 B.C. The social structure of the Sumerians was decidedly different from other societies of that and later times. The Sumerian communities were city states organized around a temple and ruled by a priesthood. […]
Sumer Timeline
c. 5,400 BCE The City of Eridu is founded. c. 5,000 BCE Godin Tepe settled 5,000 BCE – 1,750 BCE Sumerian civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates valley. c. 5,000 BCE Sumer inhabited by Ubaid people. c. 5,000 BCE Evidence of burial in Sumer. c. 5,000 BCE – 4,100 BCE The Ubaid Period in Sumer. c. 4,500 BCE The Sumerians built their first temple. c. 4,500 BCE The City of Uruk founded. 4,100 BCE – 2,900 BCE Uruk Period in Sumer. c. 3,600 BCE Invention of writing in Sumer at Uruk. c. 3,500 BCE First written evidence […]