By P. R. Ackroyd, C. F. Evans
Quantity 1 of The Cambridge historical past of the Bible matters the earliest interval right down to Jerome and takes as its critical subject the method wherein the books of either Testaments got here into being and emerged as a canon of scripture, and using canonical writings within the early church.
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C. copy of the Gilgamesh epic was found at Megiddo; other literary Babylonian texts of approximately the same period were found at Ras Shamra and Alalakh. They may well have been known at the Egyptian court also. The similarities and differences between the Babylonian and Hebrew accounts of Creation and the Flood have been much discussed and the view that the latter must be dependent in some way on the former is by no means unanimously held, i Laws and records In Mesopotamia and Israel the overriding cultural factor was the concept of law and authority which ensured the vitality, stability and continuity of a highly developed civilisation.
The Hebrew '"ram is rendered in the Septuagint by 'Syria'. However, the term 'Syriac' denotes the ancient Semitic language and literature of the 'Syriac' Christians, but is not synonymous with 'Christian inhabitants of Syria'; it roughly denotes those Christians who employed the Syrian descendant of Aramaic or were part of the Syriac Church under the influence of Syriac thought and hellenistic culture. Syriac was then the language and script of the extensive Syriac literature, which is a Christian literature in a very special sense, consisting entirely of original documents dealing exclusively with Christian subjects.
A. Kitchen, 'Some Egyptian Background to the Old Testament', The Tyndale House Bulletin, V (i960), 14-18. 4 Quoted in J. J. Finkelstein, 'Mesopotamian Historiography', p. 462. C. copy of the Gilgamesh epic was found at Megiddo; other literary Babylonian texts of approximately the same period were found at Ras Shamra and Alalakh. They may well have been known at the Egyptian court also. The similarities and differences between the Babylonian and Hebrew accounts of Creation and the Flood have been much discussed and the view that the latter must be dependent in some way on the former is by no means unanimously held, i Laws and records In Mesopotamia and Israel the overriding cultural factor was the concept of law and authority which ensured the vitality, stability and continuity of a highly developed civilisation.