Genesis 6:9 to 9:29

The End of Nature

Image Caption: Babylonian Map of the World. Source: The Imago Mundi: Babylonian Directions to Noah’s Ark (Armstrong Institute) [https://armstronginstitute.org/1127-the-imago-mundi-babylonian-directions-to-noahs-ark]

Ancient Flood Accounts ⟡

The Mesopotamian Flood Hero

Four names—one hero

The hero’s name changes based on source language rather than on historical derivation. In each case, the name of the hero seems to be eponymous.

Sumerian Deluge Account ⟡

Sumerian Deluge Account

(Enlarge image) Image Caption: Sumerian Deluge Account (Obverse). Nippur, Iraq. 17th Century BC. Clay.Source: Two of Each: The Nippur Deluge Tablet and Noah's Flood (Carlos Museum, Emory University) [https://carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/two-each-nippur-deluge-tablet-and-noahs-flood] Excavators at Nippur in 1892 and 1893 brought 35,000 cuneiform tablets (many Sumerian) to Pennsylvania University. In 1913, Arno Poebel identified and deciphered an important Sumerian tablet containing the earliest known account of the Deluge.

The earliest Deluge Account is in Sumerian and dated to the end of the third millennium B.C. The Sumerian tablet, arranged in 3 columns on 2 sides, was missing two thirds of its original 350 lines.

The Pennsylvania Museum tablet of the Sumerian flood story is the oldest known of any flood story in the world.

(Enlarge image) Image Caption: Moses Icon, St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai. Source: Category: Icons from Saint Catherine Monastery, Mount Sinai (Wikimedia) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons_from_Saint_Catherine_Monastery,_Mount_Sinai] It was kiln fired about the time Abraham was born: 2150 BC.

It contains references to Zi-ud-sura and Šuruppag.

It describes a millennium before the writing of Genesis how Zi-ud-sura, along with animals, was saved in a large boat from destruction by a global flood.

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