Assyro-Babylonian

The Assyro-Babylonian language belongs to the so-called Semitic family of languages, and in respect to grammar and lexicography offers no more difficulty to the interpreter than either Hebrew or

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Two different Assyro-Babylonian cosmogonies have come down to us.

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Assyro-Babylonian and Egyptian priests were the teachers of the Greek astrologers.

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Hence Assyro-Babylonian religion, mythology, and religious literature especially in their relation to the Old

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But this is not all, for, according to the unanimous opinion of all Assyriologists, by far the largest part of the Assyro-Babylonian literature and inscriptions are still buried under the fertile soil of these wonderful regions, which have ever been the land of surprises, awaiting further explorers and decipherers.

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The part played by these Assyro-Babylonian discoveries in the exegesis and interpretation of the Old Testament has been important in direct proportion to the immense and hitherto unsuspected influence exercised by the Assyro-Babylonian religion, civilization, and literature upon the origin and gradual development of the literature and the religious and social institutions of the ancient

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Assyro-Babylonian explorations, in the preface to his classical work entitled "Nineveh and Its Remains" remarked how, previously, with the exception of a few cylinders and gems preserved elsewhere, a case, hardly three feet square, in the British Museum, enclosed all that remained not only of the great city, Nineveh, but of Babylon itself.

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Heeren, the Abbe Saint Martin, Rask, Bournouf, Lassen, Westergaard, de Saulcy, and Rawlinson, all taking place at about the end of the first half of the nineteenth century, opened the way for the decipherment of the Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions.

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Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions been deciphered and studied.

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But the real founders and pioneers of Assyro-Babylonian explorations are Emile

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913