The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and BabyloniaPinches, Theophilus G. (Theophilus Goldridge)
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The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia
Pinches, Theophilus G. (Theophilus Goldridge)
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
“Year Ḫammurabi the king, by command of Anu and Bêl, destroyed the
wall of Mair and Malgia” (p. 187).
“Year Ḫammurabi the king renewed the temple Ê-me-temena-ursag, and
raised the head of the temple-tower, the supreme seat of Zagaga,
high like heaven.”
“Year Ḫammurabi the king raised the top of the great wall on the
bank of the Tigris high like a mountain, and caused its name to be
called the embankment of the Sun.”
Besides these, there are additions in the entries in the chronological
list, some of which are of sufficiently great importance—
“Year 31: Year Ḫammurabi the king, by the command of Anu and Bêl,
established his advantage (and) captured the land Yamutbālum and
the king Rîm-Sin.”
“Year 34: Year Ḫammurabi the king made [images of] Ištar and
Nanaa.”
Whether the following be another form of this date, or a different one
altogether is uncertain:
“Year Ḫammurabi the king renewed E-tur-kalama for Anu, Ištar, and
Nanaa.”
Year 38, which, in the chronological list, is called the year of the great
... is possibly to be completed, in accordance with the indications from
the colophon-dates: “Year of Ḫammurabi the king (when) a great flood
destroyed Ešnunna.”
With regard to the other undecided dates, it is practically certain that
the three long ones—those which record the destruction of the wall of Mair
and Malgia, the restoration of the temple Ê-me-temena-ursag and the temple
tower dedicated to Zagaga, and the construction of the great dam of the
Tigris—come into the gaps after the entry for the thirty-first year. The
reason for this assumption is, that the thirty-first year of Ḫammurabi was
the date of his conquest of Rîm-Sin, in whose dominions the town
represented by the ruins of Tel-Sifr (the place whence the tablets came
which bear these dates) lay. All the tablets from this place, bearing
dates of the reign of Ḫammurabi, therefore belong to the thirty-first year
of his reign and later.
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