Babylonian Life and HistoryCosimo, Inc., 2006 M02 1 - 164 páginas The following pages have been written with the view of offering to the Bible student, in a small compass, a little of the history of Babylon, her thought, religion, and manners, and consequently the means whereby he may understand better some of the allusions of the prophets and Bible historians.-from the Introduction Almost 6,000 years after the beginning of their great society, and 2,600 years after its collapse, the heritage handed us by the ancient Babylonians still runs like a shining thread through our global civilization today, a profound cultural gift recognized in the 19th-century as their cuneiform language was first translated.Here, one of the most prominent antiquarians of the Victorian era introduces us to both the secular reality and the spiritual worldview of these sophisticated early people, from their daily life - including aspects of their food, clothing, and furniture - to their religious traditions, their devotion to astrology, and their practice of magic.Drawing on primary and secondary sources uncovered by the archaeology of the era, this is an important volume for students of mythology, religion, history, and historical research. SIR E.A. BUDGE (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum form 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead. |
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... they were dedicated . Invention of the calendar . - Babylonian observatories . - Comets.- Eclipses . - Magical tablets . - Incantations . - Belief in evil spirits PAGE 76 90 current in the time of Isaiah .-- Contract tablets . CONTENTS .
... they were dedicated . Invention of the calendar . - Babylonian observatories . - Comets.- Eclipses . - Magical tablets . - Incantations . - Belief in evil spirits PAGE 76 90 current in the time of Isaiah .-- Contract tablets . CONTENTS .
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... spirits . - Their pure belief degenerated . The Greeks borrowed from their myths . - Difficulty of reducing the religion into a system . -Babylonian trinity , Anu , Ea , and Bel.- Marduk , the son of Ea . - Marduk , the saviour of ...
... spirits . - Their pure belief degenerated . The Greeks borrowed from their myths . - Difficulty of reducing the religion into a system . -Babylonian trinity , Anu , Ea , and Bel.- Marduk , the son of Ea . - Marduk , the saviour of ...
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The Fight between Merodach Bel and the Dragon Frontispiece | 40 |
CHAPTER IV | 46 |
Stone object containing an Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar I B C 1120 | 51 |
CHAPTER V | 67 |
Inscription on the edge of the Bronze Step bearing the name | 71 |
Terracotta Cylinder containing the History of the Capture of Babylon | 83 |
CHAPTER VII | 90 |
Terracotta Cylinder of Antiochus king of Babylon B C 280261 | 99 |
CHAPTER VIII | 104 |
CHAPTER IX | 125 |
CHAPTER X | 148 |
Babylonian Seals | 153 |
PAGE | 76 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Akkad Antiochus Anunit Anzan army Assurbanipal Assyrian Assyrian king Babylonian Babylonian king battle Belshazzar Bible Bit-Karziyabku Borsippa bricks British Museum brother brought called Cambyses clay column contract tablets cuneiform cylinder Cyrus Darius defeated destroyed dwell E-sagili Egibi Egypt Elamite enemy Esarhaddon evil spirits father fortress gate give gods Gomátes governor hand heaven and earth inscribed inscriptions Isaiah Istar Jerusalem Jews king of Assyria king of Babylon king of Elam kingdom lady land liver be magnified lonian lord Magian marched Marduk Merodach Merodach-Baladan mighty month Moon Moon-god Nabonidus Nabopolassar Namar Naram-Sin nations Nebo Nebuchadnezzar Nergal Nineveh Ninip palace Persian prayer priest prince Queen rebelled reign about B.C. restored Rimmon Ritti-Marduk river Samas Sargon Sennacherib Shalmaneser II silver Sippara slew stone Sun-god temple thee thou throne thy heart rest thy liver Tiamat took translation walls words worship
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Página 90 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Página 92 - With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house : 5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God...
Página 29 - While such is its size, in magnificence there is no other city that approaches to it. It is surrounded, in the first place, by a broad and deep moat, full of water, behind which rises a wall fifty royal cubits in width, and two hundred in height. (The royal cubit is longer by three fingers' breadth than the common cubit.) 179.
Página 90 - I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron. And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Página 74 - My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Página 30 - The centre of each division of the town was occupied by a fortress. In the one stood the palace of the kings, surrounded by a wall of great strength...
Página 135 - ... the darkness, who piercest the face of darkness, 2 merciful god, who settest up those that are bowed down, who sustainest the weak, 3...