The Sumerian Sargon Legend

Cooper, Jerrold S.; Heimpel, Wolfgang

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“…A Sumerian-language version of the story tells that Sargon escaped assassination. 46 He somehow became king himself and expanded his rule over all of southern Mesopotamia, pushing north to conquer Mari, Ebla, Ashur and Nineveh and even reaching Anatolia and the Mediterranean. 47 At some point Sargon moved his capital to the previously unknown city of Akkad, adding the title "King of Sumer and Akkad" to his previous designation "King of Kish".…”

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Nimrod the Mighty, King of Kish, King of Sumer and Akkad

Levin¹

2002

Vetus Testam

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The intent of this paper is to examine the story of Nimrod in Genesis x 8-12, offering fresh insight on both the historical background and the literary development of the passage. The article deals first with the passage's literal meaning, syntax and the extant text. The geographic context of the passage is shown to be distinctly Mesopotamian-Nimrod being the "builder" of Babylon, Erech, Accad and other southern Mesopotamian cities and then moving north to Assyria. After surveying previous attempts to identify an "historical" Nimrod, the author then suggests that the biblical figure is modeled after the combined traditions about Sargon of Akkad and his grandson, Naram-Sin. Nimrod is the son of "Cush"; Sargon began his royal career at Kish right after the flood. The Sargon-Naram-Sin traditions reached the Levant during the second millennium BCE, being combined by time and distance into a composite personality. The tradition reached its final form during the reign of Sargon II of Assyria, who added such themes as hunting to the story. The later editors of the Book of Genesis dropped much of the story and the Nimrod tradition was thus lost to later generations, save five remaining verses in the tenth chapter of Genesis.

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Section: Sargon and Naram-sin Kings Of Akkadmentioning

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Nimrod the Mighty, King of Kish, King of Sumer and Akkad

Levin¹

2002

Vetus Testam

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“…He dispatched it to [King] Lugalzagesi in Uruk. 15 This story is unfortunately fragmentary. It seems that Sargon broke open the envelope in which the letter was enclosed and evaded execution, perhaps by altering the letter's contents.…”

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What Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East Can Tell Us About Blockchain Technology

Berg

2017

ledger

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Abstract.A blockchain is an institutional technology-a protocol-that allows for economic coordination between agents separated by boundaries of possible mistrust. Blockchains are not the only technology in history to have these characteristics. The paper looks at the role of the diplomatic protocol at the very beginning of human civilisation in the ancient near east. These two protocols-diplomatic and blockchain-have significant similarities. They were created to address to similar economic problems using similar mechanisms: a permanent record of past dealings, public and ritualistic verification of transactions, and game-theoretic mechanisms of reciprocity. The development of the diplomatic protocol allowed for the creation of the first international community and facilitated patterns of peaceful trade and exchange. Some questions about a generalised 'protocol economics' are drawn.

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“…21 This is a very ancient tale type in the Ancient Near East: the first extant example of it is the so-called Sumerian Sargon Legend. Like David, Sargon is a young man living at court, chosen by the deity as future king and persecuted by Urzababa, king of Kish, who has received bad omens and feels that his power is at end because he lost the favor of the gods (translation in Cooper and Heimpel 1983). In Artapanus, Chenephres tries again to plot against his stepson, but the courtier appointed to assassinate Moses, Chanethothes, is killed by him in self-defense (Praep.…”

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Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective

Levy¹,

Schneider²,

Propp³

2015

Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences is a book series designed to foster research-based conversation with all parts of the university campus from buildings of ivy-covered stone to technologically savvy walls of glass. Scholarship from international researchers and the esteemed editorial board represents the farreaching applications of computational analysis, statistical models, computer-based programs, and other quantitative methods. Methods are integrated in a dialogue that is sensitive to the broader context of humanistic study and social science research. Scholars, including among others historians, archaeologists, classicists and linguists, promote this interdisciplinary approach. These texts teach new methodological approaches for contemporary research. Each volume exposes readers to a particular research method. Researchers and students then benefit from exposure to subtleties of the larger project or corpus of work in which the quantitative methods come to fruition.

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The Sumerian Sargon Legend

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