ENÛMA ELISH, INUMA ILU & THE EPILOGUE OF GILGAMESH. FROM EDEN TO THE NATIONS. BY FABIAN MASSA.

Translated from Spanish to English with Google Translator. This post is an excerpt from the appendix to Chapter V of the book " DE EDÉN A LAS NACIONES ". In addition to the information that the Bible gives us about pre-Flood humanity and its organization, there are extra biblical sources that we can consult, such as the accounts of creation in neighboring cultures. Among these sources we have: 1. Enuma Elish [1] It is a Babylonian poem that tells the origin of the world. Enûma Elish means in Akkadian "When on high," and these are the first two words of the poem (note that it is a feature of the ancient cultures of the Middle East to name the books by the first verse). It is collected on tablets found in the ruins of the library of Asurbanipal (669-627 BC) in Nineveh. It was discovered in 1849 by Austin Henry Layard, collector of the British Museum. Asurbapanibal had ordered the copy of this poem for the Assyrian imperial library. It is written in ...