The people of Shinar (1)

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Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae 1.113-114:
They (= the people in the plain of Shinar) were incited to this insolent contempt of God by Nimrod, grandson of Ham the son of Noah, and audacious man of doughty vigour. He persuaded them to attribute their prosperity not to God but to their own valour, and little by little transformed the state of affairs into a tyranny, holding that the only way to detach men from the fear of God was by making them continously dependent upon his own power. He threatened to have his revenge on God if he wished to inundate the earth again, for he would build a tower higher than the water could reach and avenge the destruction of their forefathers.

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Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae 1.113-114

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Amar Annus

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