Genesis and Semitic tradition . t is \vith legendaryembellishments; and the third, fouiih, and fifth cantos,which form the body of the tale and contain the essen-tial parts of the career of Izdubar, relate to the suc-cessful revolt of the people of the plain against theirElamite oppressors and the subsequent foundation of aBabylonian kingdom. The available facts thus indicatethat Izdubar was a man. Sargon with determinative PSBA., vi., 12, without vi. 11, III R. 4, No. 7,L IV R. .34, Obv. 1 ; Naram-Sin with TSBA., v. 442, without I R. .3, No. vii.,IV R. 34, Rev. 11 ; Tsitnapishtim with IV R. :
Genesis and Semitic tradition . t is \vith legendaryembellishments; and the third, fouiih, and fifth cantos,which form the body of the tale and contain the essen-tial parts of the career of Izdubar, relate to the suc-cessful revolt of the people of the plain against theirElamite oppressors and the subsequent foundation of aBabylonian kingdom. The available facts thus indicatethat Izdubar was a man. Sargon with determinative PSBA., vi., 12, without vi. 11, III R. 4, No. 7,L IV R. .34, Obv. 1 ; Naram-Sin with TSBA., v. 442, without I R. .3, No. vii.,IV R. 34, Rev. 11 ; Tsitnapishtim with IV R. :)9, col. iv., 8. Compare further,but with caution, Dunjji with I R. 2, No. ii., 1 and 4, without 2 and 3, withbfith personal and divine determinative I R. 68, coL i., 10 (which of coursemakes it probable that the name is compound, having as its first constituentgod Bau); Gamil-Sin with IV R. 35, No. 4; Amar-Sin with I R. 3, xii, and), xix; Ishmi-Dagan with I R. 2, v. and vi.; Rim-Sin with I R. 3, x.; Nur-Ramman with I R. 2, ANCIENT UABYLONIAN TOWEll IN STAGES. XIV THE TOWER OF BABEL The translation of a cuneiform text was published bySmith in his ChalJcau Account of Genesis, and afterwardsby Boscawen in the fifth volume of the Transactions ofthe Society of Biblical Archneology under the title of the? legend of the tower of Babel. Although this title wasbestowed upon it, the inscription was not put forward byeither of these writers with confidence as a tradition akinto the Hebrew narrative, and its right to the title hasbeen questioned by other scholars (Delitzsch, Bezold).It is, however, still quoted as authority by ProfessorSayce in his Hibbert Lectures. He says: The textgives us, as I believe, the Babylonian version of thebuilding of the tower of Babel (p. 40G). The tablet is badly mutilated. Only two lines are in-tact, it would seem, and some are so far gone as to leavebut a single word; and a gap exists in the middle of thestory where the tablet has been broken away en
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