Unmasking the historical identity of Nimrod

The Old Testament (Genesis 10:8-12) places Nimrod, an ancient conqueror, very near the beginnings of the New Earth that emerged after the cataclysmic Great Flood destroyed virtually everything.

Therein, he is recorded as the son of Cush, who was the son of Ham the son of Noah; Noah being the grand patriarch whose family was the sole survivor of the Great Flood. Historically, though, the character Nimrod is difficult and elusive to identify, but certain clues bring him into rather sharper focus. And his ancestry, my findings say, is not quite as the Old Testament (OT) puts it.

Although the OT does not directly say so, many researchers have associated Nimrod with the Tower of Babel, whose story features in the very next chapter after Nimrod, i.e. Genesis 11. This was a tower that mankind built to “reach the heavens”, but which was destroyed by God because it was an audacious project made possible by the fact that we all spoke the same language at that time and could cooperate. We will soon see why such an association is presumed, although my findings indicate that the god Marduk, not Nimrod, was the cause of the Tower of Babel enterprise (explained in other articles).

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