. Babel and Bible;. M-ia >5# Fig. 43 The Black (Lenormant, V., p. 329.) Fig. 45. Conical Piece of Clay from aBabylonian Coffin. 1 Erected by Shalmaneser II. (860-825 ) to record the victories of his 31 military expeditions. BABEL AND BIBLE. 45 The priestl}7 author that wrote the first chapter ofGenesis took infinite pains to eliminate all mythologicalfeatures from his stor}r of the creation of the world. Butsince his story begins with the gloomy, watery chaoswhich bears precisely the same name as Tiamat, namelyTehom, and since this chaos was first divided b}T thelight, and heav
. Babel and Bible;. M-ia >5# Fig. 43 The Black (Lenormant, V., p. 329.) Fig. 45. Conical Piece of Clay from aBabylonian Coffin. 1 Erected by Shalmaneser II. (860-825 ) to record the victories of his 31 military expeditions. BABEL AND BIBLE. 45 The priestl}7 author that wrote the first chapter ofGenesis took infinite pains to eliminate all mythologicalfeatures from his stor}r of the creation of the world. Butsince his story begins with the gloomy, watery chaoswhich bears precisely the same name as Tiamat, namelyTehom, and since this chaos was first divided b}T thelight, and heaven and the earth appeared afterwards, andheaven was set with the sun, the moon, and the stars,and the earth was covered with flowers and with animals,and finally the first man and woman went forth from thehand of God, it will be seen that there is a very close re-lationship between the Biblical and the Bab3~lonian storyof the creation of the world; and it will be obvious at thesame time how absolutely futile all att
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