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And if we may regard the literary parallel that has been pointed out as anything more than fortuitous, it is open to us to assume that chap. xiv may have been worked up by Ezekiel many years after his prophetic call at Tel-abib. See Daiches, "Ezekiel and the Babylonian Account of the Deluge", in the Jewish Quarterly Review, April 1905.
In the period of the Hebrew captivity the city still ranked as a great commercial market and as one of the most sacred repositories of Babylonian religious tradition. We know that not far off was Tel-abib, the seat of one of the colonies of Jewish exiles, for that lay "by the river of Chebar", which we may identify with the Kabaru Canal in Nippur's immediate neighbourhood.
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