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Why Cain Builds a City – The City E2

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The Meaning of Trees and Gardens in the Ancient Near East

In Babylon, you would get these beautiful city gardens that they would create. That would celebrate their success and beauty. So I remember reading this quote like a few years ago in the Tree of Life series, but it's really insightful and immediately gets us where we want to go. William Osborne on page 31 says, as any astute tourist quickly observes, the landscape of much of the Near East is predominantly stark and barren.

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