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The Word is especially for us evangelicals made the essential thing by Luther, and as good theologian surely Delitzsch must not forget that our great Luther taught us to sing and believe 'Thou shalt suffer, let the Word stand. To me it goes without saying that the Old Testament contains a large number of fragments of a purely human historical kind and not 'God's revealed Word. They are mere historical descriptions of events of all sorts which occurred in the political, religious, moral, and intellectual life of the people of Israel.
The actual locality which Professor Delitzsch proposes as the most probable site of the Garden of Eden is between the present Euphrates and Tigris, just to the north of Babylon. The boundaries would be roughly and generally speaking the two rivers for East and West; while for the North and South boundaries we should draw parallel lines through Accad on the North and Babylon on the South.
It has nothing to do with Omoroka. The word used is Lakhami, the plural of Lakhamu. This scene, the description of the monsters and the installation of Kingu, occurs four times in the 'Epic. See p. 424. Delitzsch, Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 25. Cory, ib. p. 92. "The chamber of fates" where Marduk sits on New Year's Day and decides the fate of mankind for the ensuing year.
It must have been common among the Hebrews during the period of the Babylonian exile perhaps through Babylonian influence. See Isaiah, lviii. 3. Lit., rushing water. I.e., very numerous. Be pacified. E.g., IVR. 61. Ib. 59, no. 2. Delitzsch, Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 378.
See the summary on pp. 198, 199, of Delitzsch, Ursprung der Keilschriftzeichen. See p. 436. Kosmologie, pp. 57-95. See especially the summary, pp. 82-84. See p. 89. See p. 48. On this ideograph, see Jensen, Kosmologie pp. 43, 44. Kosmologie, p. 134. See the following chapter on "The Gilgamesh Epic," and chapter xxv, "The Views of the Babylonians and Assyrians of the Life after Death."
I have but one more witness to introduce, and it shall be the distinguished German professor Delitzsch, who has long been regarded as the bulwark of evangelical orthodoxy in Germany.
In view of a passage in a lexicographical tablet, according to which the name of the god is designated as the equivalent of the god Gir-ra, Jensen concluded that the name was to be read Gira, and Delitzsch is inclined to follow him. A difficulty, however, arises through the circumstance that the element Gir in the name Gir-ra is itself an ideograph.
'great house' or 'palace. The god of war and pestilence. "Tar-gul-le," some mischievous forces. The highest part of heaven. I.e., has been destroyed. Lit., 'spoken' or 'ordered. Lit., 'my mankind. I.e., Mankind. From which they were made. See pp. 448 and 511. See p. 482, note 4. Haupt and Delitzsch render ikkal, 'ate, as though from akâlu, but this is hardly in place.
A little further evidence can be drawn from other Mesopotamian sites. The city of Asshur had a long, broad avenue like the sacred road of Babylon, but the one insula of its private houses which has yet been excavated, planned and published, shows no sign of rectangular planning. Mitt, deutsch. Orient-Gesell. 28, Sept. 1905; 31, May 1906. F. Delitzsch, Asurbanipal und die assyr.
His religious views; comparison of them with those of Frederick the Great and Frederick William I; his peculiar breadth of view shown in the Delitzsch affair; also in his dealings with his Roman Catholic subjects; treatment of the Strasburg and Metz Bishopric questions; his skill shown in the Jerusalem church matter His theory of monarchy; peculiar reasons for it; sundry criticisms of him in this respect.
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