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The Biggest, Baddest City in the Bible – The City E4
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The Origins of the Mesopotamian Plains
There's a common shared cultural narrative between the biblical story and Babylonian ways of telling their history. Have a great flood. That is in Mesopotamia with the late 2000s. The first mighty king to rule after the flood. So there's all these Babylonian versions of the flood, Atrahasas and the tale of Utnapishtim. Because they live in a flood zone. They live in where it's fertile valley. We could build a city here. The big problem is it can flood. And so it kind of makes sense that in their history, they've experienced it.
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