Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

OK Noel,

I should have read your mail before I answered the other gentleman. I cannot
find one point where I disagree from hat you write below.

NPL


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel O'Riordan [SMTP:nor AT iol.ie]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 January, 2000 00:16
> To:   Biblical Hebrew
> Subject:      Re: SV: Gilgamesh
> 
> Niels Peter Lemche wrote
> 
> >  I have great difficulties believing that Genesis
> > came into being in Palestine. I have great problems seeing Judaism as
> > originating in Palestine. I find Mesopotamia a much more likely
> candidate.
> > Judaism is exilic in outlook--'next year in Jerusalem'--
> 
> In support of Niels position for a late Mesopotamian dating of Genesis, I
> would put
> forward the identification of the 'tower of Babel' story as being a
> reference to the Ziggurat of Etemenanki in Babylon .  There has always
> been
> a reluctance to make this connection because it knocks the dating of J in
> the Solomonic period and beyond on its head, but with a revised dating of
> J
> the 'tower of Babel' story makes more sense if it is considered in a
> Mesopotamian , exilic (I use the term loosely) context.
> 
> 
> 
> Noel O Riordan
> 
> 
> 
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