Isnt the Hebrew bible much older than that?

Time-travelling Assyrians. Cool.

In other news, Wm. Shakespear stole the plot for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from the Movie ‘West-Side Story’.

Hey, I was in Anchorage for the storm Marion describes. We were in Seward that afternoon, driving back to Anchorage (to the airport of all places). The Seward highway isn’t the best place to be driving a rental SUV when there are hurricane-force wind gusts. In any case, our destination was the airport for a scheduled just-after-midnight departure which, as was becoming clearer and clearer, was sure to be cancelled. Most of the winter gear was securely packed in the suitcases, although it would have been useful for the push against the wind which was necessary to make it to the terminal (for the sole purpose of determining exactly when the flight was rescheduled for). They finally evacuated the airport tower after they’d measured winds of 109 mph — with the temperature of 5 degrees F, I think it must have made for a wind chill of 50 below. You can be glad the DA40 wasn’t around, with all the small planes that flipped over or were otherwise seriously damaged. It was vaguely amusing when they finally closed the airport, telling everyone to go to a safer place, as it’s still unclear to me how taking the Blazer in search of a hotel which still had power counts as a “safer place.” This was quite a contrast from Anchorage earlier, at the end of February, which was 40 degrees while Massachusetts was still hitting sub-zero temps.

Sure, it could be possible that the Assyrians did the stealing… as long as they had the power to run time backwards by 1000 years or so (the epic of Gilgamesh is much older than the Bible).

Could it be possible that the Assyrians stole the story of a saviour floating down a river from the story of Moses?

They seem pretty enlightened over there if they have same sex marriages.

Yeah, I think one of the great untold stories of WWI, at least untold by review of my whitebread American public school education, was the cover it provided for the mass genocides of many Christians throughout the middle east. I learned about this the hard way when a woman I dated in college, who was Armenian, was visibly appalled when I told her one of my uncles was married to a Turk.