Since Akkad was destroyed and lost with the destruction of its Empire in the period 22002154 BCE (long chronology), the stories mentioning Nimrod seem to recall the late Early Bronze Age. No king named Nimrod or with a similar name appears anywhere on any pre-biblical, extra-biblical or historic Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian or Babylonian king list, nor does the name Nimrod appear in any other writings from Mesopotamia itself in any context whatsoever. [20], In Jewish and Islamic traditions, a confrontation between Nimrod and Abraham is said to have taken place. Nimrod started his kingdom at Babylon ( Genesis 10:10 ). Forster, indeed, has argued at considerable length in favor of their Arabian origin, and supposes them the well known Beni Khaled, a horde of Bedouin Arabs. 2:48, the president of this caste was also a prince of the province of Babylon. The ensuing years of Babylonian history till its overthrow by Cyrus in 539 B.C . The next king mentioned in Scriptures is Tiglath-Pileser, whose name we have lately connected with Pul and Ashur; and after him follow Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, and Esarhaddon, the three kings who are thought to have built the palace at Khorsabad, founded Mespila, and constructed the lions in the south-west palace of Nimroud. Nebuchadnezzars kingdom and reign had an ancient and volatile history. [37] Nimrod's imperial ventures described in Genesis may be based on the conquests of the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I. Vaux quotes Dicaearchus, a Greek historian of the time of Alexander the Great, as alluding to a certain Chaldean, a king of Assyria, who is supposed to have built Babylon; and in later times, Chaldea implied the whole of Mesopotamia around Babylon, which had also the name of Shiner. ) Evil-Merodach is mentioned in 2 Kings 25:27, and Jeremiah 52:31, but not by Daniel, and this gives some countenance to the supposition, that Belshazzar was the son and not the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. The three are preserved from harm and the king sees four men walking in the flames, "the fourth . Clearly, we cannot know from these discoveries precisely what the original tower of Babel looked like, or even if Nebuchadnezzar really did rebuild his tower over the right spotthere is still much debate as to the location of the tower of Babels ruins. [46] The word Nibru in the East Semitic Akkadian language of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia comes from a root meaning to 'pursue' or to make 'one flee', and as Rawlinson pointed out not only does this closely resemble Nimrod's name but it also perfectly fits the description of Nimrod in Genesis 10:9 as a great hunter. The authorities are quoted at length, and the whole subject is ably elucidated. [36], According to Ronald Hendel the name Nimrod is probably a much later polemical distortion of the Semitic Assyrian god Ninurta, a prominent god in Mesopotamian religion who had cult centers in a number of Assyrian cities such as Kalhu, and also in Babylon, and was a patron god of a number of Assyrian kings. Bricks were found around the site, having been stamped with the name of the king. A Mosque in the area of Medina, possibly: This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 23:40. tower that the legendary epic (dated to about 2300 b.c.e., according to biblical chronology) derived. c. 575 BCE. who uses precisely the same expression, recording its circumference as four hundred and eighty stadia, with high and broad walls. But Nebuchadnezzar is the wrong king in the wrong place at the wrong time for his ziggurat to be Babel. : ! Borsippa today lies in ruins; however, the imposing remains of the ziggurat still tower to a height of 52 meters above the plain. In the year A.C. 650, Nebuchodonosor is found on the throne of Assyria, "a date," says Vaux, "which is determined by the coincidence with the forty-eighth year of Manasseh, and by the fact that his seventeenth year was the last of Phraortes, king of Media, A.C. 634. 12 Lib. Archaeology has shown that Babylons history goes backsurprise, surpriseto c. 2300 b.c.e. Our aim is to share the Word and be true to it. Since a remote time, people had abandoned it without order expressing their words . 8 Vaux quotes Dicaearchus, a Greek historian of the time of Alexander the Great, as alluding to a certain Chaldean, a king of Assyria, who is supposed to have built Babylon; and in later times, Chaldea implied the whole of Mesopotamia around Babylon, which had also the name of Shiner. Titus, Nebuchadnezzar, and Nimrod in the adth and Midrash Aggadah However, Abraham's mother escapes into the fields and gives birth secretly. In some versions, Nimrod has his subjects gather wood for four whole years, so as to burn Abraham in the biggest bonfire the world had ever seen. [Then] they took him and threw him into the furnace, and his belly opened and he died and predeceased Terach, his father. Nebuchadnezzar 's kingdom and reign had an ancient and volatile history. [citation needed]. A small handful of artifacts, however, help show an interesting link between Nebuchadnezzar and the biblical colossus. "[29] Abraham says, "My Lord is He Who gives life and causes death." He is particularly known for the destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e., and for his relationship with the Prophet Daniel. See Prideaux's authorities, and his arrangement of the Assyrian kings, which differs slightly from that here adopted. Hebrew sources claim that Nimrod was a hunter of souls where he gathered men onto the plains of Shinar. Accounts considered canonical place the building of the Tower many generations before Abraham's birth (as in the Bible, also Jubilees); however in others, it is a later rebellion after Nimrod failed in his confrontation with Abraham. Sir Walter Raleigh devoted several pages in his History of the World (1614) to reciting past scholarship regarding the question of whether it had been Nimrod or Ashur who built the cities in Assyria.[5]. Surely a significant linguistic event must have happened in order for Borsippa to receive its unique name? ), then Nebuchadnezzar is about 3,000 years too late to be the . On this stele, we may have a glimpse into what the tower of Babel looked likeor, at least, what Nebuchadnezzars reconstruction of it looked like. Rawlinson (known as the father of Assyriology) translated the inscriptions as follows: I am Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon my great lord has established me in strength, and has urged me to repair his buildings the Tower of Babylon, I have made and finished the Tower of Borsippa had been built by a former king. To 10; Micah v. 5 [A. V. 6]). Nebuchadnezzar was then restored and even wrote part of the book of Daniel contained in the Holy Bible. This Amorite Empire, of which Hammurabi was the most significant king, came to embrace all of Mesopotamia and spread into Syria, like the Akkadian Empire of Sargon. we learn that they spoke the Aramaic dialect, which the Alexandrine Version, as well as Theodotion's, denominates the Syriac. More recently, Sumerologists have suggested additionally connecting both this Euechoios, and the king of Babylon and grandfather of Gilgamos who appears in the oldest copies of Aelian (c. 200 AD) as Euechoros, with the name of the founder of Uruk known from cuneiform sources as Enmerkar. 8-10; I Chron. Specify between which dates you want to search, and what keywords you are looking for. It is the critics who are almost monthly forced to move their goalpostsnot the Hebrew Bible, which has remained unchanged for well over 2,000 years. Both were wicked and destroyed the people of God, King Nebuchadnezzar converted to Judism in the end. 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He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. In others, he proclaims himself a god and is worshipped as such by his subjects, sometimes with his consort Semiramis worshipped as a goddess at his side. This woman appears to have been a representation of the ancient deified Inanna/Ishtar, herself associated in later traditions as the mother-wife of Nimrod. 7 Facts You Didn't Know about Nimrod in the Bible - Crosswalk Ancestors and Successors of Nebuchadnezzar His son Nebuchadnezzar is said to have married the daughter of Astyages, the king of the Medes, and thus brings down the history to the times of our Prophet. [citation needed], Nimrod is mentioned by name in several places in the Bah scriptures, including the Kitb-i-qn, the primary theological work of the Bah Faith. Beginning with the words: "When King Nimrod went out to the fields/ Looked at the heavens and at the stars/He saw a holy light in the Jewish quarter/A sign that Abraham, our father, was about to be born", the song gives a poetic account of the persecutions perpetrated by the cruel Nimrod and the miraculous birth and deeds of the savior Abraham. Gerald R. Flurry, All Rights Reserved. Nebuchadnezzar was a powerful king of Babylon who reigned from about 605 BC until around 562 BC.As a conqueror of Jerusalem and an architect of Jewish captiv. Babel; Erech; Accad; Calneh; These places were located in Shinar, the area currently known as Iraq.As we can see on the following map, Shinar is very close to Africa.We should also note that before African territory was renamed . voce Caldai'o", and other authorities quoted by Vaux, p. 41, etc., also Cicero de Divin. The testimony of profane antiquity to the truth and historical accuracy of Daniel may be found in a convenient form in Kitto's Bibli. But the God of Daniel the prophet revealed Himself to the king. But these 600 b.c.e. Nebuchadnezzar II | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts Some stories bring them both together in a cataclysmic collision, seen as a symbol of the confrontation between Good and Evil, or as a symbol of monotheism against polytheism. He had completed 42 [cubits? Centuries later in 620 BC, Nebuchadnezzar, a successor to Nimrod, became the ruler of Babylon and would demonstrate that founders of a nation inject their spiritual DNA into their offspring. 1, also Pliny's N. H., lib. As translated above, Nebuchadnezzar literally calls this monument the Tower of Babylon. The Bible reveals that at the core of . The origin of this monarchy is involved in great obscurity, and we are at this moment in a transition state with respect to our knowledge of its history. There is a very brief mention of Nimrod in the Book of Mormon: "(and the name of the valley was Nimrod, being called after the mighty hunter)". If Abraham wins, I shall say: "I am of Abraham's [followers]", if Nimrod wins I shall say "I am of Nimrod's [followers]". Nimrod built the Tower of Babel, the original Babylon, ancient Nineveh, many other cities. , : ? Other than the Lee letter and the Tressell novel, the first recorded use of "nimrod" in this meaning was in 1932. The Christian Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea as early as the early 4th century, noting that the Babylonian historian Berossus in the 3rd century BC had stated that the first king after the flood was Euechoios of Chaldea (in reality Chaldea was a small state historically not founded until the 9th century BC), identified him with Nimrod. Nimrod Center of Babylon and Asshur - Amazing Bible Timeline [The Bible, Genesis 11:28, mentions Haran predeceasing Terach, but gives no details.]|. The Book of Jubilees mentions the name of "Nebrod" (the Greek form of Nimrod) only as being the father of Azurad, the wife of Eber and mother of Peleg (8:7). While men after the flood were likely vegans who continued to fear animals, Nimrod showed uncharacteristic fearless bravery in not only hunting animals but also eating them. Their devotion to philosophy and their practice of astronomy gained them great credit with the powerful, which they turned to account by professing to predict the future and to interpret the visions of the imaginative and the distressed. Whether Ninus is a fabulous creation or not, monarchs as mighty as the eagle-headed worshipper of Nisroch his god, swayed the scepter for ages over a flourishing and highly civilized people. Peuple de l'Asie, volume 3, and other authorities quoted by the Duke of Manchester, pp. he was prideful)? 11 See Eichhorn's Report. Titus, Nebuchadnezzar, and Nimrod in the adth and Midrash Aggadah Narratives of Villainy: Titus, Nebuchadnezzar, and Nimrod in the adth and midrash aggadah Shari L. Lowin Much has been written on the similarities between the narratives of the shared founding fathers of Judaism and Islam. de Urb. No one but they gained power over it. The tablet, belonging to King Nebuchadnezzar, dates to around 600 b.c.e., and includes a depiction of the king in the upper right-hand corner. From the fourth verse of chapter 2 (Daniel 2:4) we learn that they spoke the Aramaic dialect, which the Alexandrine Version, as well as Theodotion's, denominates the Syriac. [32][33][34], According to Mujahid ibn Jabr, "Four people gained control over the Earth, east and west, two believers and two disbelievers. It has only recently been restudied, and the conclusions have led to great excitement in the scientific community, along with a corresponding video production by the Smithsonian Channel reexamining the authenticity of the Tower of Babel story. Proof of his exploits, as described in the Bible, has been evidenced heavily in archaeology: his role as king of Babylon, his defeat of the Egyptian army, his repeat sieges of Jerusalem, his installation of a puppet king (Zedekiah), and his final destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 b.c.e. However, in another version, the Homilies (H 9:46), Nimrod is made to be the same as Zoroaster. Birs Cylinders was a time of great change in Mesopotamia. 16. He is mentioned in I Chronicles 1: 10, Micah 5: 6 and in Genesis 10: 8b-9. 1 cap. 9 See Dicaearch. inscriptions are not even the earliest archaeological record we have of a tower of Babelconfusion of languages story. To determine the question which was raised in our last, , we must investigate the origin of the Chaldeans, as it was the tribe whence Nebuchadnezzar sprung. 1 p. 314. ff. Assuming Nimrod ruled during the Uruk Expansion period, which covered most of the 4th millennium B.C. In modern North American English, the term "nimrod" is often used to mean a dimwitted or a stupid person, a usage perhaps first recorded in an 1836 letter from Robert E. Lee to a female friend. 2 t. 1 p. 225, ed. The records of succeeding ages are too few to enable us to follow the stream of history: we have nothing to guide us but myths, and legends, and traditionary sovereigns, whose names are but the fictions of imagination. In the History of the Prophets and Kings by the 9th century Muslim historian al-Tabari, Nimrod has the tower built in Babil, Allah destroys it, and the language of mankind, formerly Syriac, is then confused into 72 languages. Their devotion to philosophy and their practice of astronomy gained them great credit with the powerful, which they turned to account by professing to predict the future and to interpret the visions of the imaginative and the distressed. The expressions of Scripture give us exalted ideas of its size and splendor, while they assign its wickedness as a reason for the complete destruction by which it was annihilated. [citation needed], A confrontation is also found in the Quran, between a king, not mentioned by name, and Ibrahim (Arabic for "Abraham"). Father and sons were, all three of them, prodigious hunters, but Nimrd especially is the archetypal, consummate, legendary hunter and archer. In David Rohl's theory, Enmerkar, the Sumerian founder of Uruk, was the original inspiration for Nimrod, because the story of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta[45] bears a few similarities to the legend of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel, and because the -KAR in Enmerkar means "hunter". The Tower of Babel, King Nebuchadnezzar II and the Schyen Collection He built cities, like wicked Cain, as memorials to man, rather than building altars to the living God as Noah and Abraham did ( Genesis 8:20; 12:7-8 ). ap. Chronological Notes and Seventy-Sevens of Daniel 9:24-27 Nebuchadnezzar's Lineage. From this effeminate king his Chaldean general Nabopolassar wrested Babylon, and reigned over his native country twenty-one years. [citation needed] Some Jewish traditions also identified him with Cyrus, whose birth according to Herodotus was accompanied by portents, which made his grandfather try to kill him. In still other versions, Nimrod does not give up after the Tower fails, but goes on to try storming Heaven in person, in a chariot driven by birds. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech. In Armenian legend, the ancestor of the Armenian people, Hayk, defeated Nimrod (sometimes equated with Bel) in a battle near Lake Van. You can read about them in our article The Tower of Babel: Just a Bible Story?, The Babylonian kings account of the biblical colossus, The Schyen Collection MS 2063, Oslo and London, Smithsonian Channel/Christian News Network. The Belus-Nimrod equation or link is also found in many old works such as Moses of Chorene and the Book of the Bee. Nimrod has not been attested in any historic, non-biblical registers, records or king lists, including those of Mesopotamia itself. 23.) was the founder of what is termed the Chaldean, or Neo-Babylonian, Empire. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. Genesis says that the "beginning of his kingdom" (reshit mamlakhto) were the towns of "Babel, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Shinar" (Mesopotamia) (Gen 10:10)understood variously to imply that he either founded these cities, ruled over them, or both. 2 24, ap Heng., p. 275, Edit. His name in Hebrew means to rebel. An Assyrian inscription, written up to 200 years earlier (eighth century b.c.e. What was the background of Nebuchadnezzars kingdom? The word, in the Chaldee dialects, is clearly the same as the Greek, and Gesenius supposing the root to have been originally, refers them to the race inhabiting the mountains called by Xenophon. 5 He died A.C. 695. At all events, Nineveh was "no mean city" when Athens was a marsh, and Sardis a rock. Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. It is the critics who are almost monthly forced to move their goalpostsnot the Hebrew Bible, which has remained unchanged for well over 2,000 years. Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II, describing He translates a couple of lines slightly differently: the most ancient monument of Babylon; I built and finished it A former king built itthey reckon 42 ages [ago]but he did not complete its head. The phrase of Jonah, "that great city," is amply confirmed by the historian, Diodorus Siculus, (lib. : ! Cyclop., Art. Strabo also informs us that the same language was used throughout all the regions on the banks of the Euphrates. Centuries later in 620 BC, Nebuchadnezzar, a successor to Nimrod, became the ruler of Babylon and would demonstrate that founders of a nation inject their spiritual DNA into their offspring. The king is then perplexed and angered. 3. The main god of the Babylonians was Marduk, who, since the time of the First Dynasty, more than a 1000 years earlier, had generally been named Bl. More recently, Yigal Levin (2002) suggests that the fictional Nimrod was a recollection of Sargon of Akkad and also of his grandson Naram-Sin, with the name "Nimrod" derived from the latter. : , ? the sun god, and Anaita, the goddess of fertilitysimilar to Nimrod/Tammuz and Semiramis, the old Babylonian Mystery Religiongrew in popularity until . [Abraham] said to him: If so, shall I worship the cloud, which carries the water? About UsContact UsPrayer RequestsPrivacy Policy, Latest AnswersBible LessonsBibleAsk LIVEOnline Bible. But Babylon did not disappear. [25] Nimrod is also mentioned in one of the earliest writings of the Bb (the herald of the Bah Faith). Some rabbinic commentators have also connected the name Nimrod with a Hebrew word meaning 'rebel'. George Rawlinson believed Nimrod was Belus, based on the fact Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions bear the names Bel-Nibru. It further adds that Nimrod "saw in the sky a piece of black cloth and a crown". The Bible Knowledge Commentary of the O.T., edited by Walvoord and Zuck, 1985, p. 1344, gives this chronological history of the time between Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar.. Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 B.C. He orders the execution of one while freeing the other one. Nimrod is thus given attributes of two archetypal cruel and persecuting kings - Nebuchadnezzar and Pharaoh. [53] However, it is in fact Daffy Duck who refers to Fudd as "my little Nimrod" in the 1948 short "What Makes Daffy Duck",[54] although Bugs Bunny does refer to Yosemite Sam as "the little Nimrod" in the 1951 short "Rabbit Every Monday". It is not easy to assign with certainty the correct dates to each of these kings, the reckoning of Josephus is here followed, which he derives from Berosus. i. [43] Grabbe and others have rejected the book's arguments as based on a flawed understanding of the texts,[43][44] but variations of them are accepted among some groups of evangelical Protestants.[43][44]. [2] Later extra-biblical traditions identified Nimrod as the ruler who commissioned the construction of the Tower of Babel, which led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God. -- The original language of this people is a point of great interest to the biblical critic. Nebuchadnezzar II builds the Ishtar Gate and great walls of Babylon. The Tower of Babel Stele is a black ceremonial stone, about 50 centimeters (20 inches) tall, discovered just over a century ago among the ruins of the city of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II - Wikipedia The view of Gesenius in his Lectures at Halle in 1839, quoted in "The Times of Daniel," appears preferable, -- "The Chaldeans had their original seat on the east of the Tigris, south of Armenia, which we now call Koordistan; and, like the Koords in our day, they were warlike mountaineers, without agriculture, shepherds and robbers, and also mercenaries in the Assyrian army; so Xenophon found them." On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. "[citation needed]. 7 From this opinion we entirely dissent. The first biblical mention of Nimrod is in the Table of Nations. Gesenius, in his Lectures on Biblical Archaeology, reminds us of their being first tributary to the Assyrians, of their subsequent occupation of the plains of Mesopotamia for some centuries previously to their becoming the conquerors of Asia under successful leaders. 16, and Euseb. Praepar., lib. 10 The lunar year was in common use, but the solar year, with its division of months similar to the Egyptian, was employed for astronomical purposes. This tablet describes two different religious towers, known as ziggurats: Etemenanki and Eurmeiminanki. 14 Hengstenberg has tested the historical truthfulness of the author of this book, by comparing his account of the Chaldean priest-caste with those of profane history. These also were overcome by Semites who instituted the Old Babylonian Empire, which thrived in the time of the later kings. The [five] letters that spell "Nimrod" can be aligned with the [first five] letters that spell "Nebuchadnezzar", and the last three letters [of "Nebuchadnezzar"] spell the word for "ruler" [in Hebrew, "netzer"]. ), describes the building of a tower, a deity confounding languages, and a prescribed incantation to cause the language of the people to become as one! A notable example is "Quando el Rey Nimrod" ("When King Nimrod"), one of the most well-known folksongs in Ladino (the Judeo-Spanish language), apparently written during the reign of King Alfonso X of Castile. Its temples and its palaces had become so encrusted in the soil during eight centuries of men, that Strabo knows it only as a waste, and Tacitus treats it as a Castellum; and in the thirteenth century of our era, Abulfaragius confirms the prophecy of Nahum and the narrative of Tacitus, by recording nothing but the existence of a small fortification on the eastern bank of the Tigris. George Syncellus (c. 800) also had access to Berossus, and he too identified the also historically unattested Euechoios with the biblical Nimrod. [Nimrod] said to him: Worship the wind! This fits squarely with the tower of Babel (Genesis 10:10; 11:4). : ! Nebuchadnezzar II Timeline - World History Encyclopedia b. Nimrod therefore paved the way for men to start eating meat and changed their diets from vegan to omnivore. NIMROD - JewishEncyclopedia.com [47] Nibru, in the Sumerian language, was the original name of the city of Nippur. : , ? However, this traditional identification of the cities built by Nimrod in Genesis is no longer accepted by modern scholars, who consider them to be located in Sumer, not Syria. The "Pul" of 2 Kings 15:19, was by no means the founder of the monarchy, as Sir Isaac Newton and others have supposed; he was but one amidst those "servants of Bar," whose names are now legible on the Nimroud obelisk in the British Museum. This account would thus make Nimrod an ancestor of Abraham, and hence of all Hebrews. Fudd. [29] At this point some commentaries add new narratives like Nimrod bringing forth two men, who were sentenced to death previously. : , ibbr-ayi lipn Yahweh, lit. A number of city-states were formed in the basins of the Tigris and Euphrates at a very early age. 1 See his Notes on Isaiah, chapter 23. p. 132; and Herod. 13 The testimony of Cicero is precisely similar. The dates assigned to these events vary considerably; the following may be trusted as the result of careful comparison. [Nimrod] told him: Worship the Fire! 2 Travels, Book 2 chapter 1. The association with Erech (Babylonian Uruk), a city that lost its prime importance around 2,000 BCE as a result of struggles between Isin, Larsa and Elam, also attests the early provenance of the stories of Nimrod. And what caused such a linguistic phenomenon, that such a rich and luxurious tower would be built and then abandoned, with only its upper head left to finish? Later, Masudi lists Nimrod as the first king of Babylon, and states that he dug great canals and reigned 60 years. He, along with his entire nation, is also the giant responsible for the building of the Tower of Babelconstruction of which was supposedly started by him 201 years after the biblical event of the Great Flood. : , , ? His ancestors were largely concerned in the overthrow of the Assyrian empire. The son of Cush and therefore a great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod was described as a king in the land of Shinar (Mesopotamia). One thing Nebuchadnezzar isnt generally known for, though, is a link with the tower of Babelthe attempt by Nimrod to build a tower up to heaven, dashed by Gods confounding of the languages (Genesis 11). And Babylonia became weaker than the controlling Hittite and Egyptian kingdoms. Later, the book describes how Nimrod established fire worship and idolatry, then received instruction in divination for three years from Bouniter, the fourth son of Noah.[14]. Since the city of Akkad was destroyed and lost with the destruction of its Empire in the period 22002154 BC (long chronology), the much later biblical stories mentioning Nimrod seem to recall the late Early Bronze Age. Abraham said to him: Shall I then worship the water, which puts off the fire!

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