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Her thesis, a collection of Babylonian-Assyrian references to Arabia and the Arabs, was later published as The Mention of the Arabs in Assyrian-Babylonian Texts.
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Thus in the Babylonian-Assyrian religion a documented existence of apotropaic (evil-averting) rites has shown that music served to rescue man from the activities of destructive demons.
MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN 1968
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Similarly the word for "clothing" may be written SIG-BA, which represents again the "Sumerian" word, whereas, the Babylonian-Assyrian equivalent being _lubushtu_ it is so to be read in Semitic texts, and may therefore be also phonetically written _lu-bu-ush-tu_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Throughout all periods of Babylonian-Assyrian history, the conception prevailed of a large dark cavern below the earth, not far from the Apsu -- the ocean encircling and flowing underneath the earth -- in which all the dead were gathered and where they led a miserable existence of inactivity amid gloom and dust.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Babylonian-Assyrian proper names, as well as for an indication of the problems involved and the difficulties still existing, especially in the case of Sumerian names, [35] see the three excellent works now at our disposal for the Sumerian, the old Babylonian, and the neo-Babylonian period respectively, by Huber, _Die Personennamen in den
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The influence exerted by the Babylonian-Assyrian religion was particularly profound on the Semites, while the astral theology affected the ancient world in general, including the Greeks and Romans.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Even when we reach the New Testament period, we have not passed entirely beyond the sphere of Babylonian-Assyrian influences.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Babylonian-Assyrian periods had a verbal form attached and a third element representing an object.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The astral theology of the Babylonian-Assyrian religion, while thus bearing the ear-marks of a system devised by the priests, succeeded in assimilating the beliefs which represented the earlier attempts to systematize the more popular aspects of the religion, and in this way a unification of diverse elements was secured that led to interpreting the contents and the form of the religion in terms of the astral-theological system.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Babylonian-Assyrian proper names -- we have variant readings, the same name being written phonetically in whole or part in one instance and ideographically in another.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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