Jordan Peterson on the Enuma Elish

Many of us, I'd bet, have taught the Babylonian Creation Myth.  We may have
marveled at the surrounding modern commentary.  Now,  Jordan Peterson in
Toronto has weighed in, and Rebecca Futo Kennedy (on Twitter) has drawn
attention to this critique
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by Emily Pothast, who is primarily, I think, a journalist, has weighed in
with this survey of scholarship, based on this earlier, more scholarly piece
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from her.  I found both worthwhile.

It is interesting to see her citing Bachofen, who is hardly read these days
but was central to Norman O Brown's teaching of ancient history in the
1960s.

Dan