The habitation of nonsense

That’s how yours truly summed up the infamous book The Two Babylons^[1] in a recent video.^[2] When researching for the script, I was surprised to learn that inspiration behind a main point in The Two Babylons came from the Pseudo-Clementine literature, spurious writings from around the 4^th century CE. That point being that Ninus is Nimrod. Indeed, when perusing the two volumes of the Clementine literature, named Recognitions and Homilies, I was struck by how similar they were to The Two Babylons. Lastly, I reviewed the origin of Ninus and his wife Semiramis as coming from the Greek physician Ctesias. However, since the discovery of Assyrian records and the resulting rise of the science of Assyriology, we can now fact-check Ctesias—and he failed to be a reliable historian on this point. Unfortunately for Hislop, he wrote before Ninus was shown to be unhistorical. Semiramis was found to have a historical counterpart, but she lived much later than Ninus was presumed to have lived, and she was not his wife.

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Footnotes:
^[1] Seventh edition, 1871. Published by Loizeaux Brothers, 1959.
^[2] youtu.be/fueXd1YrJqQ

Link:
The complete book in a single webpage, with some added commentary interspersed: chcpublications.net/Two_Babylons.html