Week 5: Babel, Nimrod, and the Disinherited Nations
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Contents
- Men of the Name
- The Map: The Table of Nations
- The Hunter: Nimrod
- The Tower: One Language, One Name
- The Judgement that Destroys Nothing
- The Disinheritance: What Babel Decided
- The Witness of the World
- Out of the Wreckage
- Babel Undone
- Taking it Home
Sources & Further Reading
- Books
- Heiser, Michael S. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible.
- See especially chapters 13–15 on divine allotment and cosmic geography.
- Hampson, Todd. The Chronological Guide to Bible Prophecy: An Illustrated Panorama from Genesis to Revelation.
- Muddamalle, Joel. The Hidden Peace: Finding True Security, Strength, and Confidence Through
- Walton, John H. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate.
- Heiser, Michael S. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible.
- Articles and primary texts
- Heiser, Michael S. “Deuteronomy 32:8 and the Sons of God.” Bibliotheca Sacra 158 (2001): 52–74.
- Levin, Yigal. “Nimrod the Mighty, King of Kish, King of Sumer and Akkad.” Vetus Testamentum 52, no. 3 (2002): 350–366.
- Petrovich, Douglas. “Identifying Nimrod of Genesis 10 with Sargon of Akkad by Exegetical and Archaeological Means.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 56, no. 2 (2013): 273–305.
- Vanstiphout, Herman L. J. “Another Attempt at the ‘Spell of Nudimmud.’” Revue d’Assyriologie 88 (1994): 135–154.
- “Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta.” Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature 1.8.2.3, University of Oxford. etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk
- “The Sumerian King List.” Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature 2.1.1, University of Oxford.
- Josephus, Flavius. Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, chapter 4 — the Nimrod tradition (cited as tradition, not as Scripture).
- The Book of Jubilees, chapters 8–10. Translated by R. H. Charles, 1917. Second Temple background; not canonical Scripture.
- Video and teaching material
- Black Sheep Bible Talk. “The Third Judgment: What Really Happened at Babel” and “4,000 BC: The Genesis of Tyranny — Nimrod.”
- BibleProject (Tim Mackie). Genesis 1–11 narrative and design-pattern material on Babel and the Table of Nations.