Akkadian language

That's longer than our last reset.

Now, the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, was from 1894 BCE.

"He, Marduk, constructed stations for the great gods, fixing their astral likenesses as the stars of the Zodiac.

He determined the year, and in two sections he divided it.

Was killed then resurrected, becoming God incarnate.

Cult includes communion and baptism.

Adonis- Born December 25th, Greek god of fertility, AKA Babylonian Tammuz, AKA the Syrian savior.

He was killed and buried, resurrected three days later.

They are old friends, and they've been underlined and dog-eared for years now.

To the left of the Bibles, there are anthologies of Sumerian and Akkadian literature, and what survives from Ugarit and the Hittites.

And around the Bibles are half a dozen books about ancient pagan cult and mystery religions, and then the Dead Sea Scrolls and a couple of anthologies of Second Temple Apocrypha, and then the early Christian stuff, 2nd and 3rd century church fathers, the Nag Hammadi Library, more Apocrypha, Jerome, two collections of Manichaean scriptures, and right next to them St. Augustine, just to remind the old grouch of his roots, an anthology of the Talmud and one of the Haggadah, or stories from the Talmud, and then two good scholarly Qurans, then two one-volume anthologies of the Hadith scholars Al-Bukhari and Muslim Ibn Hajjaj.

The whole stack of books I just described, generally the most important primary texts of the ancient Near Eastern and Abrahamic religions, is about a meter thick.

As a hodgepodge of Samarian refugees sought homes in and around Jerusalem and more invasions shook the Levant, through the reigns of Hezekiah and especially his great-grandson Josiah during the end of the 600s, a nativist core of Judahites in Jerusalem sought to curtail the religious diversity that had characterized Canaan since time immemorial and enforce a monotheistic monarchy with a central locus for worship and tithe collection.

Facing internal dissension from assorted populations of newcomers, the significant inertia of polytheism's long and embedded history, and most threateningly the military might of multiple Mesopotamian empires, the Judahite monarchy, with its dowdy monotheism, eventually collapsed.

When the First Temple was destroyed in 586 BCE and a generation of Judahite intelligentsia were taken to the Akkadian world of Babylon, they were strangers in a strange land.

And thinking back to what had been in the 700s and 600s before them, they wrote much of the Tanakh as we still have it today.

So in the Torah, there's v'chlal no mention of months.

And really, in m-m-most of Nach, there is no mention of Tishrei, Cheshvan, until we get to the Book of Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nechemiah, because that's already after the Babylonian exile.

And, uh, Chazal say, indeed, just repeating what you said, that the names of the months are Babylonian names that we just incorporated in the Galus Bavel.

Now-- And some of them are even idolatrous.

Uh, a hundred percent correct.

In the book of Yechezkel, Tammuz is an Avodah Zarah, is a statue that people were bowing down to, right? Nosim Avakais es Tammuz.

So first, before I answer your question, let me just start with another question.

That is, why would we adopt Babylonian names? Why, why, why would that be something to even do? So the Ramban, as you know, the Ramban came to Eretz Yisrael Besif Yamav, and the Ramban gave a Drasha On his first Rosh Hashanah in Eretz Yisrael.