12 clay

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12 clay tablets
Akkadian
funeral
2000 bce
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Sumerian King City-life vs. Country-life
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Enkidu
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Snake carries off the plant of eternal youth
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• THE FLOOD
• Fact?
• Symbol?
• Both?

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Sir Leonard Wooley Flood - 4000 bce 400 miles
X 100 miles
10 ft layer clay deposit
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Timber above timber line Carbon-14 Timber
dates to 700 ce. Probably a shrine.
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Didactic To teach a lesson. Sin destroys Only
God can save
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Tower of Babel story continues the sin story
symbolism Nation-from-nation-alienation
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Leonard Wooleys reconstruction, 1939
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Peter Bruegel 1563
Sin is a whirlpool sucking us all down. Only God
can save us.
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