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Babylonian Life and History: Third Edition (Classic Reprint)
Babylonian Life and History Third Edition - Classic Reprint Author:E.A.Wallis Budge 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. When they wrote, they knew they were addressing ... more »a nation fully acquainted with the knowledge necessary for the understanding of their words. We inhabitants of the West are obliged to have recourse to whatever contemporaneous records we can find for the explanation of the history of the time which is not clearly stated in the Bible. Consequently the notices of Bible events and Bible history which are obtained from the nation which had so much to do with the Jews are of particular value. The cuneiform writings possess one wonderful attribute, and that is, they are records of events written at the time of their occurrence. Manuscript histories can be tampered with, letters alte
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CONTENTS ; CHAPTER 1; BABYLON ACCORDING TO THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS; Babylonia-Its great antiquity-Extent of country-Name derived; from capital city-Its old name-Narnes of Babylon in the inscriptions; and their meanings - Meaning of Babel - Talmudic; discussion thereon-Its situation-Its size-Its ':Yalls and their; names-Translation of a long Nebuchadnezzar inscription obtained; from two barrel cylinders in the British Museum-Nebuchadnezzar; rebuilt the Tower of Babel, col I, line 53-List of temples of; Babylon-He wrote an account of them-Nebuchadnezzar's prayer; -The two great temples of Babylon-Meaning of their namesBirs; ·Nimrud the sitel of Borsippa-Babylon and Borsippa according; to the Talmud-Their bad name among the J ews-Remains of; Nebuchadnezzar's buildings-The tower in seven stages-Their; colours, etc-Pl8,in of Duru the same as the plain of Dura of; Daniel-Euphrates-lts name-Sippara the Biblical Sepharvaim; PAGE; -I« less