Zimri-lim’s Mari Palace and King Solomon
by Damien F. Mackey The Mari palace of Zimri-Lim, biblical “Rezon” and some time foe of King Solomon, may show evidence of Genesis (Garden of Eden) and Solomonic (Temple) imagery. If Hammurabi were, as the biblical artisan, Huram-abi, involved in the technical enhancement of Solomon’s architecture, then we might expect that the contemporary palace of Mari, belonging to Zimri-Lim (see my): Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim as Contemporaries of Solomon https://www.academia.edu/18306131/Hammurabi_and_Zimri-Lim_as_Contemporaries_of_Solomon would exhibit some degree of Solomonic influence. Accordingly, one will read at: http://publications.mi.byu.edu/publications/studies/4/S00001-507d876e576a3Bradshaw.pdf A number of scholars have found parallels in the layout of the trees in the Garden of Eden and certain features of Israelit...