The creative impetus of organized society in the Fertile Crescent initially came from southern Mesopotamia where the Sumerians introduced writing and other hallmarks of civilization to the region just before 3000 BCE but in less than 1 000 years things changed drama... Lees meer.
This book explores a historical moment in which a Middle Eastern Jewish community not only adopted a new nation Iraq but a new ethnicity Arabism and its ultimate demise. Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots their community which had existed in Ir... Lees meer.
Talmud Bavli the Babylonian Talmud comprises the Mishnah and the Babylonian Gemara the latter representing the culmination of more than 300 years of analysis of the Mishnah in the Babylonian Academies. The foundations of this process of analysis were laid by Rab a... Lees meer.
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Many of the earliest books particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable high quality modern editions using the original text and artw... Lees meer.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have... Lees meer.
The Talmud from the 1903 and 1918 editions of the translation by Michael Rodkinson all 20 volumes. This edition is intended for modern readers. Rodkinson omitted sections where the debate becomes extremely obscure. He points out wherever he did so. The introduction... Lees meer.
Excerpt from The Ancient History of the Egyptians Carthaginians Assyrians Babylonians Medes and Persians Macedonians and Grecians Vol. 6 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks... Lees meer.
The Babylonian World presents an extensive up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its holy city Babylon. Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact... Lees meer.
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The Hebrew Scriptures contain many hundreds of laws both religious and civil. They concern the Temple in Exodus the priesthood in Leviticus the Temple offerings and other rites in Numbers and the social order of Israel in Deuteronomy . These may rightly be called... Lees meer.
The tamitu texts are a corpus of Babylonian oracle questions addressed to two gods as a duo. Shamash the sun god and Adad the storm god. This volume contains a known corpus of tamitu texts. The Babylonian tamitu texts are a corpus of questions addressed to the sun-... Lees meer.