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Identifier: genesissemitic00davi (find matches)
Title: Genesis and Semitic tradition
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Davis, John D., 1854-1926
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sthat proceeded from them, the race destroyed by the del-uge, the persons saved, their descendants who under-took to build the tower and were scattered throughout Eupolemus in his book on the Jews of Assyria ((^haldca) says first thecity of Babylon was founded by those saved from the flood (they were giants) :further, they built the tower which is mentioned in histurv ; but this havingbeen overthrown by the intervention of God, the giants were scattered through-out the whole world (Euse))iHs, Prwp. evang., ix., 418). Eupolemus is iden-tified, rightly or wrongly, with the Jewish envoy of the same name who wassent to Rome by Judas Maccalireus about 101 r..c. (Prap. evang., ix., 17).Artapanus is supposed to have been an Alexandrian Jew living about a cen-tury before Christ. ^v - H... V IZIHJjAi; A^D TllK LiU.N. --^?^f J-=^-^.—^_,-j9^ ^ y 7 ^-^^ ^ ^ \ ., / I / \ •i IZDIBAII ANU EAHANI IN COXFLUT •WITH THE BULL AND THE LION. ..If/i r>^ T/,nri5AU AND THE BULL. EAIJANI AND THE LION.
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IZDIIIAU AND THE LION. I THE TOW Kit OF BABEL 147 tlic earth iu consequence, are not distinguished as menof unusual size or strength. On the contrary a man ofmight like Nimrod is as worthy of note after the flood asbefore it. And tlic same is true of the description ofthese men of early times which is given by the nativecuneiform documents. It is not yet so complete as theHebrew record, but so far as it goes its testimony is tothe same effect as the Hebrew. The race destroyed bythe flood, Tsitnapishtim and his companions who weresaved, their descendants including even Izdubar, are notmentioned as though gigantic. Izdubar indeed has co-lossal proportions, many times larger than a lion, in thesculptm-e which adorned the walls of Sargons palace, andoccasionally elsewhere. A man who performed mightydeeds of valor and was perfect in strength, was, ofcourse, powerfully built and would naturally be repre-sented as large. But even Izdubar, the perfect instrength is commonly delineated no larg

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