“After the flood had swept over, and the kingship had descended from heaven, the kingship was in Kish.” – Sumerian King List
Contemporary city-states in Sumer, the Bible’s Shinar, were ruled by one high king from his capital; the first being Kish, self-designated by Cush. Engelbrite’s book, “Genesis Solves Sumerian King List,” provides regnal dates connecting Noah’s grandson Cush to Hammurabi. Though Cush fathered an African nation (Ethiopia, formerly called Cush), he returned to rule the cities he built in Sumer: Ur, Uruk and Kish. Known as “Cush of Ur” his name is recorded as “Gishur” in the SKL. Near the ancient bank of the Euphrates River, Cush’s palace may have recently been discovered ten miles from present-day Ur.
Archaeological periods, largely based upon pottery, have been aligned to Genesis.
• The Ubaid expansion: the tribe of Cush may not have made good pottery, but they built great cities.
• The Uruk expansion: Nimrod was a tyrant who took over the cities his father, Cush, had built; and the mass-produced pottery improved little.
• Early Bronze Age abandonment: Nimrod thought a fortified city (Babel, meaning “gate of El”) with a massive ziggurat could protect his empire, but God (Elohim) scattered the people.
Between the destruction of Nimrod’s Babel and Hammurabi’s reign in Babylon is only 385 years. With 30 pictures and over 70 charts, “Genesis Solves Sumerian King List” is simple enough for the novice to follow, yet robust with over 500 footnotes for the scholar.
(Source: Christian Newswire)