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    Comments on David Melvin’s Essay (2010) "Divine Mediation And The Rise Of Civilization"
    Comments on David Melvin’s Essay (2010) "Divine Mediation And The Rise Of Civilization"
    Comments on David Melvin’s Essay (2010) "Divine Mediation And The Rise Of Civilization"
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    Comments on David Melvin’s Essay (2010) "Divine Mediation And The Rise Of Civilization"

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    In 2010, David P. Melvin publishes a paper in The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (volume 10, article 17, pages 1-15). The full title is "Divine Mediation and the Rise of Civilization in Mesopotamian Literature and in Genesis 1-11".
    Melvin performs a straightforward comparison between the written mythologies of the ancient Near East and Genesis 1-11.
    How do these bodies of literature account for the rise of civilization?
    These comments re-articulate Melvin's analysis from the point of view of the first singularity, a proposal detailed in the scientific treatise, The First Singularity and Its Fairy Tale Trace, and in the dramatic fiction, An Archaeology of the Fall.

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    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateDec 12, 2020
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      Comments on David Melvin’s Essay (2010) "Divine Mediation And The Rise Of Civilization" - Razie Mah

      Comments on David Melvin's Essay (2010) Divine Mediation and the Rise of Civilization

      By Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords.com

      2020

      Notes on Text

      This work comments on an article by David P. Melvin in The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (volume 2, article 17, 2010, pages 1-15). The full title is Divine Mediation and the Rise of Civilization in Mesopotamian Literature and in Genesis 1-11. My goal is to comment on this work using the category-based nested form, the first singularity, and other relational models within the tradition of Charles Peirce.

      ‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

      Prerequisites: A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, The First Singularity and Its Fairy Tale Trace, A Primer on Implicit and Explicit Abstraction

      Recommended: Comments on Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight's Book (2017) Adam and the Genome, Comments on Original Sin and Original Death: Romans 5:12-19, An Archaeology of the Fall

      Table of Contents

      Start with the Conclusion

      The First Singularity

      Civilization in Mesopotamian Literature

      Civilization in Genesis 1-11

      Melvin's Thesis

      Conclusion

      Start with the Conclusion

      0001 David P. Melvin publishes an apparently straightforward comparison between two bodies of literature in regards to a very specific topic.

      0002 The two bodies of literature are:

      Genesis 1-11: These stories are recorded in the Bible, after

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