Session 4
Pan-Babylonism
Oct 30 - Nov 5, 22
Objectives
- Informs you of the rise and demise of PanBabylonianism and how that movement has influenced amateur researchers in media and the internet.
- Exposes the weaknesses of PanBabylonianism and why modern scholars of the ancient Near East consider its claims exaggerated or inaccurate.
- Introduces you to how contemporary scholars assess the relationship between ancient Near Eastern material and the Hebrew Bible (especially Genesis).
Additional Resources
- Articles:
- Bill T. Arnold and David B. Weisberg, A Centennial Review of Friedrich Delitzsch’s “Babel und Bibel” Lectures, from the Journal of Biblical Literature
- Victor Hurowitz, The Genesis of Genesis, from From Babylon to Baghdad: Ancient Iraq and the Modern West
- James K. Hoffmeier, Some Thoughts on Genesis 1&2 and Egyptian Cosmology, from the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
- Books:
- John H. Walton, Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology:
- Graphics:
