Tag: mesopotamia?
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Would the Judeans in Babylonian exile have learnt to write “Cush” to mean Mesopotamia?
When did the cuneiform literature use the term “Cush” to refer to all or part of Mesopotamia, as happens in Genesis, if ever? Why does this matter? In the Pentateuch, “Cush” seems only to refer to Mesopotamia, but all subsequent Biblical…