Re: CHAT: Nimrud

On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 01:11  PM, takatunu wrote:
> Sorry if somebody already explained, but what is the taditional
> explanation
> for this king's name being "We Shall Rebel"?
> µ.
> www.conlang.free.fr

Unfortunately i don't have any of my books of traditional commentaries
with me, but i'm pretty sure it's because Nimrod is seen as an evil
dictator who rebelled against God.  In post-Biblical lore he's
associated with our favorite edifice, the Tower of Babel, and also with
the legend of Abraham getting thrown into a fiery furnace while growing
up in Ur Kasdim (it's Nimrod's fault).


-Stephen (Steg)
  "Let them come.
   There is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath."
      ~ gimli son of gloin, LotR:FotR (movie version, at least)

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