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From the Bible to the Sumerian King List
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 30, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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authors, 1730, history, Isaac, traditions, David, Saul, Israel, sequence, present, priests, Joshua, Abraham, capital, Exodus, brother, dynasty, kingship, Egypt, Miriam, Jacob, monarchic, flood, southern, simultaneously, enemies, oppress, impressive, Jacobsen, Moses, twelve, sovereignty
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the Bible presents a nice and neat genealogical line extending from               
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Abraham's son is called           
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Isaac is the father of           
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Jacob undergoes a name change to             
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Jacob/Israel is the father of              sons who represent the twelve tribes of the whole nation
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Jacob and his family go down to           
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during the days of Joseph there
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they do fairly well
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then Egypt begins to                Israel
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they make their escape under the leadership of           
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Moses is descended of Levi, one of Jacob's twelve sons
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he's joined by his sister             
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and his brother Aaron
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Aaron's line is awarded the role of prestigious high               
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Moses passes the mantel onto              who brings Israel into the promised land
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Joshua dies
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a series of Judges appear
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govern Israel and save them from their               
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each is from a different clan or tribe from Israel
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the Judges are eventually eclipsed by         , Israel's first king
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Saul proves to be the wrong person for the job
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eventually replaced by           
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after the death of David's son Solomon, his successor
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Israel is split into two
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the Davidic kings rule only in the                  part called Judah
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the myriad of rulers and their dynasties in the northern part don't have a unified               
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so this is one simply story from Abraham down to the final kings of Judah and Israel
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we have to distinguish between what is a story which Biblical authors may have been creating to                Israel in a certain way
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we have to ask: are Moses and Miriam really                and sister
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or do Moses and Miriam represent separate                      which the Biblical authors brought together in order to affirm
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if this is the case, than the Biblical narrative is even more                      achievement than one would otherwise suppose
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we also have to ask:
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why would the Biblical                weave these stories together in the way they did
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how do their efforts in this regard relate to the experience of Israel's defeat and loss of                       
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Sumerian King List
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presents the names and reigns of Mesopotamian rulers from prehistory to          BCE
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they have a concept of a            myth
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rules before the flood enjoy fantastically long life spans
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the authors have aligned all the rulers into a                 
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even in cases when kings reign                             
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if one king reigned at the same time as another in another city, the authors would say that one reigned before the other
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the most likely reason for this is simply because there is a concept of                  and kingship is unified and it cannot be held by two kings at the same time
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Torkild                 : "Sumerian King List" (1939)
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"The author of the King List worked on the theory that Babylonia was and always had been a single kingdom. Within the country the                could change from one city to another, but there was never more than one king at a time."
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it's not that kingship is passed from one place to another
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but Babylonia is a single kingdom
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the unifying thread is                    power
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a unity of history seen from the perspective of the throne, of monarchic power
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when we come to the Biblical stories we see that it does not focus on monarchic power
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monarchic power is place far back in history
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after the patriarchs and              and Joshua and Judges
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what unifies the                is this God which becomes the God of Israel and Israel itself, this people who has a special relationship with this god
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it's more a unity of family, nation and their God in contrast to kingship and monarchic power that you have in the Sumerian King List

Spelling Corrections:

geneological ⇒ genealogical
Sumarian ⇒ Sumerian
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The Elephantine Papyri
Judahite Communities in Babylon
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The Biblical Project
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