I’ve blogged about the 19th century academic trend (one is tempted to call it a craze) referred to as Pan-Babylonianism before. In simplest terms, this was the era following the heels of the decipherment of cuneiform, which made the literature of the ancient...
Franz Delitzsch
The Bias of 19th Century German Biblical and Assyriological Scholarship
Turns out even real scholars can be guilty of paleobabble when motivated by biases. They simply filter the data through a preconceived grid. I’ve blogged before about how F. Delitzsch was influenced by racial theories of his day toward anti-Semitism, which in...