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.
The reverse begins with a reference to Elam, and some one (perhaps the
king of that country) who “spoiled from the city Aḫḫê (?) to the land of
Rabbātum.” Something was made, apparently by the same personage, into
heaps of ruins, and the fortress of the land of Akkad, and “the whole of
Borsippa(?)” are referred to. At this point comes the line mentioning
Kudur-laḫmal, supposed to be Chedorlaomer. It reads as follows—
“Kudur-laḫmal, his son, pierced his heart with the steel sword of his
girdle.”
After this there is a passage where the various kings mentioned seem to be
referred to, and it is stated that Merodach, the king of the gods, was
angry against them, and they were, to all appearance, made to suffer for
what they had done. The scribe who had composed this record now speaks, in
favourable words, of the king then reigning, and seems to refer to the
restoration of the inscription to its place by the person (prince) who, in
later days, should find it (as was the custom among the Babylonians and
Assyrians). He ends with a pious wish that a sinful man might not exist,
or something to that effect.
The second tablet, though in a more satisfactory state of preservation, is
still sufficiently incomplete, none of the lines being altogether perfect.
After referring to Babylon, and to the property of that city, “small and
great,” it is said that the gods (apparently)
“in their faithful counsel to Kudur-laḫgumal, king of the land of
Elam ... said ‘Descend.’ The thing which unto them was good (he
performed, and) he exercised sovereignty in Babylon, the city of
Kar-Duniaš.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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