Posted on 07/10/2007 5:48:08 PM PDT by blam
The Bible relates that they were told not to look back, no matter what, and she did. That was her punishment. She’s been a salt lick ever since.
Oh, what YOU said! I’m telling mom....
He didn’t bed the daughters, THEY bed HIM when he was drunk with wine. He couldn’t tell who it was because he was soused.
Go to your room!
Mmmmm, wheaties!
Jeez, I best keep it zipped.
The revised story in Genesis puts all the blame on the girls. The hapless Lot is drunk (as usual).
We do not consider drunkeness to absolve one of guilt these days and, if we were to rewrite the story, would portray Lot as some sort of monster I am sure.
You do realize the original story has been revised to make the men guiltless and women the source of evil in the world.
Nabu-sharrussu-ukin is the spelling from 2500 years ago. Nebo-Sarsekim is probably the modern english "sounds like".
“You know you’re a language nerd when the most surprising thing to you in this thread is that Dravidian is agglutinative. I was also stunned that cuneiform came from an agglutinative language, so I poked around some.
I already knew that Jeremiah was reliable. :-)”
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I recently read a book by the late Samuel Noah Kramer on the Sumerian culture. It was a fascinating culture. According to Kramer, the Sumerians prior to the Akkadian era referred to themselves as “the black heads”.
It is somewhat remarkable that the Bible, as far as names and places go, is one of the single most verified pieces of ancient literature that exist. Probably rivaled only by the Roman and Egyptian records.
Damn the Romans for burning Alexandria!!
As a lover of books to save and share the learning of humankind, I agree with your sentiment. What must have been lost from the species with that profane act!
It’s pretty naive to believe that no accidental or deliberate changes were ever made. Many of the copiers were no doubt carefully and accurately copying already-changed texts. Given the right political climate, failing to make a change or omission that was desired by those in power was also likely to lead to the swift demise of the copier. And then there’s the matter of translations between languages. Have a look through the Oxford Annotated Bible and read up on all the passages where ancient sources vary signficantly.
I suspect that an archive that includes much of what was there actually exists. An archive that might even exceed the 500,000 or so texts. But just as inaccessible as Alexandria for the average Joe.
The Vatican.
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Don’t turn on the TV. This is punishment.
I do realize that the middle east mindset believes so, that’s why the women are covered from head to toe. Sigh.
It’s okay. Mom likes you better anyway. Sigh.
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