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67 premacy. He was, thus, the enigmatic “Son-Man” of the Egyptian and the Akkadian prophecies—the Divine Son who was also a Son-Man, the son of a god and of an Earth- ling woman. The Enlilites, understandably, could not accept such a sit- uation. And so it was that when Amar-Sin ascended the throne of Ur after Shulgi, the targets and strategy of the Ur Ill military expeditions were changed in order to reassert Enlilite control over Tilmun, to sever the sacred region from the “rebel lands,” then pry loose those lands from the influ- ence of Nabu and Marduk by force of arms. Starting in 2047 B.C.E., the sacred Fourth Region became a target and a pawn in the Enlilite struggle with Marduk and Nabu; and as both biblical and Mesopotamian texts reveal, the conflict erupted to the greatest international “world war” of antiquity. In- volving the Hebrew Abraham, that “War of the Kings” placed him in center stage of international events. In 2048 B.c.£. the destiny of the founder of monothe- ism, Abraham, and the fate of the Anunnaki god Marduk converged at a place called Harran. Harran—*The Caravanry”—was an important trading cen- ter from time immemorial in Hatti (the land of the Hittites). Countdown to Doomsday FIGURE 30