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Show Babylonian Account of Paradise and the Fall , One of the most surprising discoveries discov-eries of the German expedition at Ashshur was a tablet containing an account not only of creation, but also of the long-sought Babylonian Garden of Eden, the fall of man, his destruction destruc-tion and re-creation, and the redemption redemp-tion of the gods by the death and resurrection of Marduk. G. A. Ear-ton Ear-ton shows its relation to other Babylonian Baby-lonian myths, to the Egyptian myth of the death and resurrection of Osiris, to the BqoU of Enoch, and to the Gospel accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus. In regard to the last point, he concludes that, making the most liberal assumptions, and granting that in some unknown way the Babylonian myth may be the origin of certain minor features of the Gospel story of the resurrection, the addition is so small and relates to such unimportant details that it , strikes nowhere near the nerve of the historic facts which underlie the narratives nar-ratives of the resurrection of Jesus. Scientific American. . . |