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Babylon founded by giants (1)

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Babylon as capital of Assyria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.02 Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
12.02.03.02.01 Babylon as capital of Assyria
Deluge
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.04 Deluge
Postdiluvian age
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.05 Postdiluvian age
Rescue of pious wise man
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.04 Deluge
01.02.04.04 Rescue of pious wise man

Keywords
Babylon
flood
tower of Babylon

Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Eusebius, Praeparatio 9.17.2-3:
Eupolemus in his work On the Jews says that the Assyrian city of Babylon was first founded by those who were rescued from the Flood. They were giants (and) built the recorded Tower. When it collapsed due to the action of God, the giants dispersed over the whole Earth.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Eusebius, Praeparatio 9.17.2-3

Bibliography

Reeves 1992, 112

Reeves, John C. “Utnapishtim in the Book of Giants?.” Journal of Biblical Literature 112 (1992) 110-115. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]

Amar Annus

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