Re: Jordan Peterson on the Enuma Elish

The part I most enjoyed  was her last line!

June

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019, 10:33 AM DANIEL P. Tompkins, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fs%2Fstory%2Fjordan-peterson-is-a-very-poor-researcher-whose-own-sources-contradict-his-claims-464633558b75&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C669db16b098c45f0036a08d6bcfe0034%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636904196445135941&amp;sdata=4QiHac%2FOpMuHRIvKA6HUyHbc0kc1Iz6kQyJ7TtunYAM%3D&amp;reserved=0
> >
> 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
> <
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F38606226%2FThe_Great_Mother_and_The_Dragon_of_Chaos_Jordan_Peterson_s_Misuses_of_Mythology&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C669db16b098c45f0036a08d6bcfe0034%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636904196445135941&amp;sdata=lBWPEdci%2BU6G7AlLRgbNq2C7iJw5hwfl4SuNA5q5kO8%3D&amp;reserved=0
> >
> 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
>