The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 53
of King Sargon I.(reminding us of Moses), and of the creation of the world.The name of Babel, which is in Assyrian bab-ilani^ or bab-ilii^ i. e. the Gate of God, is a Semitic translation of theAccadian Ka-dingirra-ki^ with the same meaning; liter- * Sir Henry Rawlinson believes that Gin Eden or the… … ally: Gate + of God 4-the place. The etymology ofthe name Babel from balbel^ to confound, which issuggested both in the Assyrian account of the story andin Genesis, is one of those popular etymologic errorswhich are frequently found in ancient authors. In the legend of the destruction of the cities…
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