It can be assumedthat the event that destroyed Tell el-Hammam would have been witnessed and recounted through the generations until the time of the biblical Sodom, at which point the event would have been an inspiration for the story, which tells of stones and fire falling from the sky to ...
Barycz showed its resemblance to the Egzorbitancyja (that I have analyzed above) in portraying the Jesuits as astute and hypocritical spies of the Spanish king, comparing them to the biblical Gibeonites (Joshua 9), and accusing them of being a source of division within the Polish nation. ...
30 | Stefan Baums Falk’s impression was that the writing surface of the scroll was produced by pasting together two different sheets of birch bark, which would make this the only known Gāndhārī manuscript manufactured in this way. That this was not, however, the case, and that the Praj...
the god of the sky and sovereign of all other gods, and Inanna, a goddess of love and war—and there were others, patrons of different cities. Human beings were at their mercy.The biblical story of the Flood may originate in Sumer.In the earliest version, the gods destroy the human rac...