Having left Cambridge I arrived in London where Chris and Anja Tilling and I spent the afternoon. We went to the British Museum first off to see the Babylon exhibit and I have to say that I enjoyed it. Though, I also have to say, and I said this to Chris, that it was a bit odd to me that the exhibition followed the chronology of the Biblical narrative to a t.
To be sure, there was mention of the difference between Nabonidus and Nebuchadnezzar as the beastly figure in the Babylonian texts and the biblical. But it has to be said that the biblical chronology was the primary lens through which the exhibit was done.
We left then the BM and went to lunch, their apartment, and the train station. Now, firmly entrenched in Crawley, I await my morning flight home.
Here are some photos of the day.
I am glad, dear Jim, that you liked the Babylon exposition in the British Museum; and I am surprised to read that it “it was a bit odd … that the exhibition followed the chronology of the Biblical narrative”, because the Louvre exhibition was arranged in a historical part (arranged, literaly, around the Laws of Hammurabi), then a thematical part, then a second historical part on late Babylonia (literaly around the remains of the Babylon copy of the Behistun relief), and finally a part dedicated to “visions of Babylon”. It was there that the Jewish Bible became important, together with Herodotus, the Book of Revelation, medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary art.
By: rambambashi on January 7, 2009
at 5:05 pm
Is that Chris and Anja’s lime lamborghini?! Apart from the red buses it’s the liveliest thing in London. Where’s the colour?!!!
Perhaps the BM exhibition came from that M you mentioned a while ago somewhere in America for creationists?
By: steph on January 7, 2009
at 6:46 pm