Hebrew Myths: The Book Of Genesis
Robert Graves
Language: English
Pages: 315
ISBN: 0517413663
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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ungenerol1s bch:wiour towards stra ngers a rc a com monplace of 1ll ) lh . Birkct Ram, nca r ll:inias in Northern C ali lee, al l ex li nct \'oJcano cra ter, is said by the local Arabs to coveT with its wa lers :1 ci ty whose inhabitants had this failillg. Pherccydes records that C o rtYlla ill C rete was dest royed by Apollo for it s b wlcssllcss. O vid, in his Ivfetl1lllorl)/lOses, tells how all old Phrygiall couple, Ph ilemo n and Baucis, hospitably en te rtained Zells, who spared thcm the
Hebrc.....·Ara bic hom ilies composed in I ):7. Ed. by Alexander Kohut, New York, t 8t}4. NAZI R. NED ... RIM . o OPPF.Nl n! IM, ORl eEN Fabula losepl,i et Asellatlwe, Berlin, 1886. (185-154 A. D.). Ece!csi3stical writer, lived i n Egypt, Rome and Pal· estine. J lis works .....ere cdited in the Allte-Nice"c Fat/l ers .series. OROSIUS OF T"'R RACONA, SC~'e" Books AgcJillst t/le Pagell/s. Paulus Orosius, a Spa nish historian and theologian of the fifth century ,0. . 0 . His SC~'C II Books
ma le mem bers sha ll be shamefull y elongated: i\'len of th is race arc callcd Negroes; their forefat her Canaa n commanded thcm to love theft a nd fornication, to be banded together in ha tred of their masters ami ncver to tell the t ruth .~ (f) O thers however acquit ITam of nny Stich crim e. They say that when Nonh was d iscmbMking on Ararat, the sick lio n showed base ingra titude by dealing his genitals a blow with its paw, so that he eOllld never agai n perform the marital act. For this
JUCi:JC:l1lS transported to Babyloll by Nelmchad rezzar will ha\'e l>cen astonished at the Ilumber of different dialects spoken by t heir fellowdeporlccs, God's confusion of tongues sccms to he a f:lr more :lIlC· ielll tradition- Moses of C horene reeor(ls it in his Armeniall Il istory, when discussing Xisut lnos and the ark (sec 20. 5). 9. 5t Jerome, like Orosius, identifies the T ower of Babel with Babylon itself- the outer walls of which, according to Ilerodotus, measured over Sft y-five
cma is the oasis ill North- 159 TII f. aooK OF CENI!.SIS em Arabia still called Ta}ma. DlIIllah sccms to be Adumatu, an oasis and fort ill the Syria n Desert conquered by Scnnaeherib. Mlbs.1 1l1 and r..lishma rallk in 1 Chrollicles IV. 15 alUong the sons of Si meon. which suggests that the Israelit e trihe of Sillicon. whosc tcrritory sprc3d southward from Judaca, assimilated :11 least part of thelll . 6. Jctur and Naphisl. arc mcntioncd in I Chronicles v. 19. together with Nodab 3nd the
