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Their first son was called Enoch. Cain then "builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch." But this is directly opposed to the curse "a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." Delitzsch notices this, and, as usual, seeks to explain it away.
As Kalisch observes, "most of the ancient nations possessed myths concerning impious giants, who attempted to storm heaven, either to share it with the immortal gods, or to expel them from it." And even the orthodox Delitzsch allows that "the Mexicans have a legend of a tower-building, as well as of a Flood.
Professor Delitzsch, with a wealth of recondite learning, showed, on the contrary, that Sardanapalus was a wise and liberal-minded monarch, who, rather than fall into the hands of the Medes, built himself a pyre in a chamber of his palace and perished on it with his wives, his children, and his treasure.
Jensen and Zimmern read upshugina, but see Delitzsch, Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 135. See above, p. 238. In the first tablet, in the second in connection with the mission of Anu, and twice in the third in connection with Marduk's visit. Tiâmat's presence. Called Nudimmud.
Ekurrâti; Delitzsch, Assyr. Handwörterbuch, p. 718b. IR. 35, no. 3, 22. See below. Hebrew Bamôth. Through the opposition of the Hebrew prophets, the term acquires distasteful associations that were originally foreign to it. See Peters' Nippur, ii. 124 seq. IIR. 50, obverse. Perhaps, however, these several names all designate a single zikkurat. Peters' Nippur, i. 246; ii. 120.
The name Marduk appears here under the ideographic designation Tutu. The identification with Marduk may be due to later traditions. I.e., inner side. The name of the cave underneath the earth where the dead dwell. See above, p. 443. See, e.g., Jeremias' Izdubar-Nimrod, p. 28. See the passages in Delitzsch, Wo Lag das Paradies, pp. 242, 243.
For various views regarding the name and character of this dynasty see Winckler, Geschichte, pp. 67, 68, 328; Hilprecht, Assyriaca, pp. 25-28, 102, 103; Winckler, Altorientalische Forschungen, I. 275-277, and Rogers, Outlines, 32, note. See Delitzsch, Die Sprache der Kossaer. The Babylonian religion in the oldest form known to us may best be described as a mixture of local and nature cults.
'You don't know an amiable millionaire, with a nice quick yacht from 70 to 120 tons, to be given away, and sent out to Auckland free of expense, I suppose. 'We must give up all idea of our Chapel for a time, but we can do without it. And a vessel is necessary. The last of this letter is on Delitzsch and Biblical criticism, but too much mixed up with other persons' private affairs for quotation.
George Smith already interpreted the passage in this way. I.e., of the heavens. Delitzsch renders "Schwerpunkt." Text el
Besides Delitzsch, however, there are others, as Pognon, Jäger, Guyard, McCurdy and Brinton, who side with Halévy. See now Dr. Amer. Philos.
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