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You name shall be Stone (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Ninurta and Asakku (Lugal ud melambi nirgal) 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.01 Myths 04.01.09 Ninurta myths 04.01.09.02 Ninurta and Asakku (Lugal ud melambi nirgal) Stones 02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs 02.03 Mineral symbols 02.03.02 Stones	Keywords netherworld stones titles
Period 2nd century CE 4th century CE Byzantine Empire Roman Empire Sumerian Ur III Empire	Channel Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars Old Testament Sumerian poetry

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Lugale 327-330 (Ninurta’s Battle against Asag):
(Ninurta to Asag:) “From today forward, do not say Asag: its name shall be Stone. Its name shall be zalag stone, its name shall be Stone. This, its entrails, shall be the underworld. Its valour shall belong to the Lord.”

Matthew 16:18:
(Jesus to Peter:) “And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.” (Implying immortality.)

Tatian, Diatessaron 23.35:
“And I tell you that you are Kefa, and on this rock I will build my church, and the bars of Sheol shall be powerless against her.” (Implying resurrection, the vision of the Church sharing in Christ’s eschatological victory over death.)

Ephrem Syrus, Commentary on Isaiah 54.7:
‘No weapon that is fashioned against thee will prosper’, means that no kingdom that is set against thee will bring its enterprise to completion: that is, ‘the bars of Sheol shall have no power against thee’.

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Ephrem Syrus, Commentary on Isaiah 54.7
Lugale 327-330
Matthew 16:18
Tatian, Diatessaron 23.35

Bibliography

Murray 1975, 214-215, 231, 233

Murray, Robert. Symbols of Church and Kingdom. A Study in Early Syriac Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1975.

Amar Annus

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