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Apr 10Liked by Benjamin Ritzer

Hmm, you may have noticed that my reconstruction does not use the writings of the Babylonian Jews at all, so Nimrod could not be contemporary with Chedorlaomer by any means! But I will keep alert for any possibly good information!

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Apr 10·edited Apr 10Author

Yes, but Nimrod is Amraphel, who was contemporary with Chedorlaomer!

The Babylonian Jewish point is silly, then you have nothing to rely on, and everything is false. The truth is what Babylonian Jews said.

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Apr 10Liked by Benjamin Ritzer

Hmm, well then we are bound to get some conflicting results.. I have accepted Rohl's identification of Nimrod with Enmerkar (but not much else Rohl has claimed), and gone on to identify Amraphel as Lugal Annemundu... about 300 years later .

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Enmerkar is certainly not Nimrod, if you read my previous sections you'll see this cannot be so, and makes little sense on anything other than etymology. The dating makes no sense, Enmerkar was not 2100

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No surprise everyone gets different results depending what they consider reliable, I dated the fall of the tower under Nimrod / Enmerkar to the year 2424 BC, but I am pleased to see other reconstructions based on different materials or viewpoints!

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