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Naming the city "Enoch" may seem like an unnecessary addendum, a bit
of Bible
trivia, but it is not without significance. According to the
Sumerians,
kingship
resumed at Kish after the flood. Twenty-three kings ruled there until,
"Kish was
smitten with weapons; its kingship to E-Anna(k) was carried." 1 In The
Makers of
Civilization, Waddell translated E-Anna(k) directly as "Enoch,"
reckoning
it as the
Sumerian equivalent for Enoch, the city built by Cain. 2

Although the flood erased early inhabitants, at least some of the
pre-flood
cities
were rebuilt. It was at Enoch that Mes-kiag-gasher became high priest
and
king
and reigned 324 years. 3 His son, Enmerkar, built or continued
building Uruk
located virtually across the street. Uruk is the biblical Erech, part
of
Nimrod's
kingdom (Gen. 10:10). Enoch or "E-Anna(k)" (translated "the House of
Heaven")
is the oldest preserved temple near Uruk, and was supposedly the
dwelling
place
of the goddess Inanna, the Accadian "Ishtar." 4

E-Anna(k), now called "Eanna" by archaeologists, has been excavated. A
deep
sounding was made in the Eanna precinct at Warka in 1931-32. The
pottery was
identified as Ubaid from level 18 up to level 14. It transitioned to
the
Uruk period by
level 10. From Woolley's analysis, the pottery from the earliest
period he
found at
Ur, that he called "Al 'Ubaid I," was unrepresented at Warka, 5
demonstrating that
both Ur and Eridu were established before E-Anna(k). And, of course,
Adam's
Eden would have been older than Enoch, the city Cain built.

Here is an aside from Jacobsen I did not include in the book. It is an
endnote
following the lines, "Kish was smitten with weapons; its kingship was
carried to
E-Anna(k)."

"As first pointed out by Poebel (PBS IV 1, p. 115), the phrase
presupposes
that
only the temple precinct E-Anna(k) existed at the time. The city Uruk
was
built
under En-me(r)-kar."

Further in the Sumerian king list it says, "Enme(r)-kar, son of
Mes-kiag-gasher,
king of Uruk, the one who built Uruk, became king." By the way, the
fourth
king
named at Uruk was the fabled Gilgamesh.

1. Thorkild Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List (Chicago: The University
of
Chicago Press, 1939), 85.

2. L. A. Waddell, The Makers of Civilization (New Delhi: S. Chand,
1968), 62.
Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List, 85.

3. Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List, 85.

4. Samuel Noah Kramer, From the Poetry of Sumer (Berkeley: University
of
California Press, 1979), 174.

5. Seton Lloyd, "Ur-Al `Ubaid, Uquair and Eridu," Iraq, n.s., 22
(1960), 24.

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"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago."

References

2. http://www.asa3.org/archive/asa/200011/0140.html