The thrilling conclusion of the Enuma Elish is an extended hagiographical top-50 list extolling the virtues of Babylon's patron god. As we are now well into the period where Marduk is unquestionably supreme within Babylon's walls, it is high time that we focused out attention a bit more on just who this Marduk fellow truly is. We look at the context of the naming, the fact that by some counts Marduk has more than 50 names, and then look through the canonical listing itself, including commentary by later ancient scholars on the Enuma Elish as an etymological text, which is not a perspective we would usually approach it from.
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OS 143 - Assurnasirpal Has Too Much Energy
OS 142 - The Assyrian Empire Takes Shape
OS 141 - The Unintended Aramization of Assyria
OS 140- The Dawning of a New Assyrian Empire
OS 139 - An Iron King for an Iron Age
OS 138 - Erra and Ishum Threaten Destruction
OS 137 - The Oldest Dreams
OS 135 - Middle Class Demons of Mesopotamia
OS 134 - Poverty, Pessimism, and Comedy in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Theology Within History
Isaiah 55
The Witness of Lamentations
The Book of Job in a Near Eastern Context
OS 133 - Jerusalem Falls
OS 132 - Judah Ascends
OS 131 - Israel's Brutal Judgement
Oldest Stories is now a Book!
OS 130 - Israel Runs Out of Names
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