The Covenant Tablet Of Wealth

In the ANE, numerous tablet inscriptions and references exist, the oldest dating to ancient Babylon. Unfortunately, these references are general to an inscribed message. Authoritative references to tablets are less, and references to named tablets referred are rare. Research uncovered only five such tablets: the Covenant Tablet, the Tablet of Destinies, the Tablets with the Words of Fate, the Holy Tablet of the Heavenly Stars, and the Tablet of Wisdom. The first two tablet concepts graded highest for a possible parent-child relationship with Jewish Apocalypticism.
Covenant Tablet:
Oracle to Esarhaddon
Covenant Tablet occurs in an oracle collection uncovered in Nineveh, one oracle, however, doubled as As̆s̆ur’s covenant occasioning Esarhaddon’s
The tale concerns the bird, Anzu, who robs Enlil of the Tablet of Destinies, which disrupts authority and sends the universe spinning towards chaos.
Anzu often watched the father of the gods, the god (of) Duranki, and in his heart imagined removing the supremacy: “I myself will take the gods’ Tablet of Destinies and gather the assignments of all the gods. I will win the throne, be the master of the offices! I will give command to all the Igigi!” (tablet 1: 69-76).
The referential authority of the Tablet of Destinies moves not readers to action; but reminds readers of the gods’ assigned roles. By removing the Tablet of Destiny, Anzu erased the authority by which the gods worked, as the author referenced in lines 81-82, “To the Tablet of Destinies his hands reached out. The supremacy he took—suspended are the offices!” The power of this tablet comes in 2:66-67, “As [Anzu] raised the Tablet of Destinies of the gods with his hands, the darts, carried by bowstring, could not approach his body.” Thus, the tablet held authority for deity assignments, but also warded against