. Babel and Bible;. ed occasion for that amalgama-tion of Galilseans and Samaritans which sprang into ex-istence in the eighth and seventh centuries before Christ,by transplanting on that soil foreign nationalities at whosehead were citizens from the Babylonian towns, Babel,Kutha, and Erech. According to 2 Kings xvii, 24, theking of Assyria (Sargon is meant) placed people fromBabylon, Kutha,2 Ava, Hamath and Sepharvaim in thecities of Samaria; so also Ezra iv. 9 records where theinhabitants of Erech and Babylon are likewise named 1 ^S 2 For Kutha see pp. 72 and 73. 180 BABEL AND BIBLE. among t
. Babel and Bible;. ed occasion for that amalgama-tion of Galilseans and Samaritans which sprang into ex-istence in the eighth and seventh centuries before Christ,by transplanting on that soil foreign nationalities at whosehead were citizens from the Babylonian towns, Babel,Kutha, and Erech. According to 2 Kings xvii, 24, theking of Assyria (Sargon is meant) placed people fromBabylon, Kutha,2 Ava, Hamath and Sepharvaim in thecities of Samaria; so also Ezra iv. 9 records where theinhabitants of Erech and Babylon are likewise named 1 ^S 2 For Kutha see pp. 72 and 73. 180 BABEL AND BIBLE. among those nationalities transplanted by Asnappar(Asurbanipal) to Samaria and other lands across theEuphrates, together with the Susianians, i. e. underlying current of this mixed race was Baby-lonian and remained so to such a degree that the Talmudin countless passages calls the Samaritans Kuthaeansdirectly after the Babylonian city Kutha, and that theGalilaean dialect with its peculiarly Babylonian slurring. Fig. 88. The Assyrian King Pul (Tiglathpileser hi). of gutturals betrayed the Galilaean even in Jesus time(Matt. xxvi. 73). To illustrate this, compare the familiarpassage of the Talmud {Erubin 53 b.) : When theGalilaean said, Who has an amar1} they answered him,Thou foolish Galilaean, meanest thou an ass (kamor)2 toride, wine (hamar)3, to drink, or wool (kamary for clothing,or a lamb Cimmar)s to slay? n Gutturals were for themost part similarly reduced to a spiritus lenis in the Bab-ylonian language. The Israelites regarded the Babylo- nttN 2 TEn 3wn nvn) 4i±v (i®$) *1BK BABEL AND BIBLE. 181 nians as so little Semitic that tlie author of the ethnolog-ical lists in Genesis did not include them, at all in hisenumeration of the Sons of Shem. The establishmentof the Babylonian character (which from this very fact,therefore, was not purely Semitic) of the mixed race ofthe Samaritans and Galilaeans might prove worthy ofconsideration, it seems to me, in the New Testame
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