Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce.

  • Kish, pseud.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that he differs in many and important respects from Yahveh’s creation of his Man. Yahveh’s creation of His Man is stated in detail in the second Chapter. Hitherto it has been sup- posed that the second Chapter of Genesis was a more elaborated detail of the Creation of that Man who is stated to have been created in the first Chapter by Elohim, but the differences are so marked, and so distinct, that it is impossible for us to allow that this is so. Adam as used in the first Chapter is an appellative noun and signifies the first man. Prof. A. H. Saj^ce, in his “ Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments,” says : “ Adam was a Baby- lonian word. It has the general sense of ‘ Man,’ and is used in this sense both in Hebrew and in Assyrian. But as in Hebrew it has come to be the proper name of Adam (the first man), so, too, in the old Babylonian Legends, the ‘ Adamites ’ were the WHITE RACE of SEMITIC DESCENT, who stood in marked contrast to the ‘ Black Heads ’ or Accadians of Primitive Babylonia. Originally, however, it was this ‘ Dark Race ’ itself that claimed to have been ‘ the Men ’ whom the God Merodach created; and it was not until after the Semitic conquest of Chaldea that the Children of Adamu or Adam were sup- posed to denote the white Semitic population. Hence it is that the Dark Race continued to the last to be called the Admatu or “ Red-
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