These are the people who I commented on:
Titalyn Johnson
Charlita Harris
Mai Pham
Kirbie Guerin
Brittany Moses
Shana Simon
Sierra Hall
Jamie Morgan
Sarai Weathersby-Casby
Merrill Brouillete

The similarities between Genesis and Enuma Elish is that both describe what they think is the beginning of human life. Both also deal with people angering the gods. Adam and Eve ate a fruit from the tree of knowledge which angered God, and in Enuma Elish the gods’ children were too loud so Tiamat started to kill them. The difference is that while the beginning of life for Genesis was started by only one God, the beginning of life for Enuma Elish was started from numerous gods
The Tiglath-Pileser Principle was named after Tiglath-Pileser I, who became the first Assyrian king in 1114 B.C.E . The Penn State researcher Halpern states that, “In Assyrian royal inscriptions, the torching of a grain field is the conquest of a whole territory beyond it,” says Halpern. “A looting raid becomes a claim of perpetual sovereignty. The technique is that of putting extreme spin on real events.” Halpern applied this principle to David of Samuel. An example of this is in the book of Moab in 2 Samuel 8:2. The text claims that David defeated Moab and killed two thirds of his captives and the remaining third paid tribute.

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