PART TWOI. In the Grey Dawn of History 115II. Cain's Penitential Hymn 118III. Did Cain Found the Babylonian Laws? 123IV. The Leaven of Malice and Wickedness 127V. More About King Cain 130VI. Was Cain in Crete? 133VII. The Sad End of Sargon 142VIII. Was Cain the Founder of China? 145IX. Evidence Summed Up 150X. The Picture Puzzle Made 152Appendices 155INTRODUCTIONAbout thirty years ago in a series of lectures a certain German professor, himself a higher critic,announced his belief in the Divine inspiration of the first chapters of Genesis; his regret at theattacks being made upon their authenticity by other professors; and his conviction that if a certaindiscovery could be made it would largely help to counteract those attacks. He apparently did notexpect that such a discovery would be made; but I hope to show that when the cuneiforminscriptions found in Babylonia and now available for anyone's inspection are sudied from a newpoint of view, that discovery is ours.In support of this new point of view, extracts from works leading Assyriologists are quoted inthe following pages, and their translations of the inscriptions are given. It can scarcely bethought presumptuous on my part if I suggest a new applicaton of those inscriptions consideringthat the deductions already drawn from them are indeterminate and unconvincing. While takingadvantage of them I make bold to suggest that their decipherers, like others before them, maysometimes have "failed to see the woods for the trees."That the writers, from whose works I quote, hold different views from my own naturally makesany of their evidence that supports my views the more convincing because it is involuntary.Since the history which they have deduced from Babylonian inscriptions is admittedlyconjectural, and rests upon a certain hypothesis described by one of them as almost incredible, itis well that some other hypothesis should be tested, and I claim that my new version of Babylonian history rests upon a much more reasonable one.That a new interpretation should be welcome is suggested by Professor Sayce's words:"Both in Egypt and Babylonia, therefore, we are thrown back upon the monumental textswhich the exacavator has recovered from the soil, and the decipherer has pieced togetherwith infinite labour and patience.... The conclusions we form must to a large extent betheoretical and provisional, liable to be revised and modified with the acquisition of fresh material or a more skilful combination of what is already known." (
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonian,
p.3)And also by Professor T. Eric Peet, who writes:"Archaeology can in no sense be termed an exact science, that is to say, its conclusionsrarely follow with mathematical certainty from its premises, and indeed but toofrequently they do not rise above the level of mere nebulous possibilities or probabilities.
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Thanks Inga for uploading, "Sargon the Magnificent." I had been wanting to read it. I learned a lot from it, and especially how it all fits with the mythology stories.
I've read the book, and I came to the conclusion that the "blackheads" are the true Babylonions, and they must be the black race who held Judah in captivity shortly after Israel went into captivity to Assyria, and they were let loose from their captivity and crossed the Caucas mountains afterward, and were called saxon's..sons of Issac..being transliterated. So I take it literal that the Babylonians are the black race,and Cain(Sargon)translated, Came to Babylon and taught them how to garden so well They created the famous hanging gardens in Babylon. I believe that Barack Obama is the first sihns of Babylon being rebuilt in these later days. Until I am proven otherwise. Thanks for your paitence, May God inspire you to the End.
Jakobic...if you read the Abrahamic Covenant by E.Raymond Capt...available here, you will see they were Caucasions...
Remember that Abram's (Ibrahim) father was from Ur of the Chaldees - Babylon... so - were his posterity "in captivity" in Babylon or returning home? Also remember that at once it was only the priest class and the elite who were taken to Babylon, and Mechisedek returned with the "oral law" that became the Babylonian Talmud, the most central, and sacred part of their teachings/doctrine then, and now