...: " And Gush begat Nlmrod : be began to be a might; one In the earth . . . And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh In the land of Shlnar. Out of that land he went forth Into Assyria and bnllded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,...

...was also really a king in the earthly sense of the word. Indeed, it is he whose kingdom's beginning was " Babel, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar," Nimvod, to whom this domain is attributed in the tenth chapter of Genesis, being nothing else...

...was also really a king in the earthly sense of the word. Indeed, it is he whose kingdom's beginning was " Babel, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar," .Nimrod, to whom this domain is attributed in the tenth chapter of Genesis, being nothing...

...associated with Ishtar of Erech, and the land of AkkadA would then have been located near the city of nally have denoted the four cardinal points, and, as the...With Kalneh I would compare the ancient city of Mount (Khar sag-} Kalama. A change of m to n is not unusual (compare Shuwir and Shinar). The city, "the mount...

...is a "great hunter before the Lord," and the beginning of Izdubar's kingdom, as that of Nimrod, is "Babel and Erech and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."1 It is possible that Nimrod is an appellative of Izdubar. The name has been explained as "Bright Light."2...