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The Primordial History: Genesis 1–11 and the Ancient Near East

Explore key narratives in Genesis 1–11, from creation to Babel, compared with their Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Sumerian counterparts to reveal how Is...

Melammu: Divine Radiance in the Ancient Near East and Biblical Traditions

Explore how Melammu, the awe-inspiring radiance of gods and kings in ancient Mesopotamia, originated in the overwhelming brightness of the sun and sta...

Beauty and Divine Favor in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

Explore how ancient Near Eastern royal ideology connected physical beauty to divine election and how this influenced the Hebrew Bible. This concept is...

The Divine Council and the Development of Bureaucracy

Explore how the biblical divine council evolved from an informal council of gods into a structured divine administration, and how its evolution follow...

The World Tree in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Traditions

Explore how the image of a great tree at the center of the world was inherited from Mesopotamian myth into the Hebrew Bible and reshaped by later Jewi...

From the Tablet of Destinies to the Book of Life

Explore how the Mesopotamian idea of divine tablets that tracked everyone's destiny evolved through the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish literature,...

Protecting Widows, Orphans, and the Poor

Explore how the social obligation to protect the most vulnerable members of society evolved from ancient Near Eastern culture into the Hebrew Bible, p...

Matching Reference Citations

Hebrew Bible

Jonah 2:5 / Psalm 18:4 Genesis 3:23 / LXX Genesis 3:23 Zechariah 9:10 / Psalm 72:8 Deuteronomy 32:13 / Amos 4:13 Genesis 13:10 / Genesis 19:24 Isaiah 30:26 / 1 Enoch 72:37 Genesis 1:1 / Isaiah 65:17 Jeremiah 25:30 / Revelation 10:3 Psalm 82:6 / Isaiah 24:21 Genesis 2:15 / Numbers 3:7 Hosea 2:14 / Isaiah 54:6 Deuteronomy 12:5 / 2 Samuel 7:13 Exodus 15:8 / Psalm 78:13 Daniel 12:1 / Luke 10:20 Proverbs 10:7 / Wisdom of Solomon 2:4 Exodus 14:18 / Ezekiel 28:22 1 Samuel 28:13 / Isaiah 19:3 Leviticus 1:9 / Onkelos Leviticus 1:9 Leviticus 8:7 / Onkelos Leviticus 8:7 Ezekiel 16:30 / LXX Ezekiel 16:30 Ezekiel 23:20 / LXX Ezekiel 23:20 Ezekiel 16:8 / Ruth 3:9

Ancient Near East

Enuma Elish IV / Psalm 104:3 Enuma Elish IV / Psalm 148:4 Enuma Elish IV / Genesis 1:6 Enuma Elish V / 1 Enoch 72:2 Summa Alu 1 / Genesis 11:4 Epic of Gilgamesh XI / Genesis 8:7 Eridu Genesis / Genesis 2:7 The Treaty between Suppiluliumas and Kurtiwaza / Deuteronomy 30:19 Surpu III / Exodus 20:5 Surpu IV / Isaiah 35:3 Surpu IV / Psalm 146:8 Surpu IV / Isaiah 42:7 Adapa and the South Wind 4 / Genesis 5:24 Ishtar’s Descent 135 / Ezekiel 8:14

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Ancient Near East

Summa Alu 1 / Genesis 11:4 The Sargon Geography / Genesis 7:19 The Sargon Geography / Genesis 8:9 Surpu II / Leviticus 5:4 Surpu II / Deuteronomy 19:14 Surpu II / Matthew 25:35 Surpu II / Isaiah 29:13 Surpu II / Deuteronomy 23:23 Surpu II / Psalm 15:4 Surpu II / Psalm 78:35 Surpu III / Psalm 19:12 Surpu IV / Isaiah 35:3 Surpu IV / Psalm 146:8 Surpu IV / Isaiah 42:7 Ishtar’s Descent 135 / Ezekiel 8:14

Glossary Terms

Akkad Akkadian Enki Mesopotamia Sumer

Reference Library

"A Shuilla: Ea 1a" in Lenzi, Alan, (ed.) Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction

Lenzi, Alan • Society of Biblical Literature • 2011

Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature

Foster, Benjamin R. • CDL Press • 2005

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