The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ublic libraries, and a largepart of the latest and largest of them—the libraryof Nineveh—is now in the British Museum. Its last and most generous benefactor wasAssur-bani-pal, the Sardanapalus of the Greeks, predecessors, it became necessary to translate theliterary products of the older Chaldea intoSemitic Babylonian. For many centuries, Baby-lonia possessed a bilingual population and t
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ublic libraries, and a largepart of the latest and largest of them—the libraryof Nineveh—is now in the British Museum. Its last and most generous benefactor wasAssur-bani-pal, the Sardanapalus of the Greeks, predecessors, it became necessary to translate theliterary products of the older Chaldea intoSemitic Babylonian. For many centuries, Baby-lonia possessed a bilingual population and theeducated classes were required to know, notonly inflectional Semitic, but also agglutinativeSumerian. (3) Two Languages. As late as the reignof Khammurabi, with whom the history of united-BabvIonia begins, in the twenty-fourth centuryB. C., the public inscriptions of the king werewritten in the two leading languages of the coun-try, and there are numerous legal documents ofthe same age, the language of which is stillSumerian. The two languages necessarily bor-rowed words and idioms, one from the other, sothat a knowledge of Sumerian was as importantto the student of Semitic Babylonian as a knowl-. Fragment Now in the British Museum Showing Primitive Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform Characters Side by Side. who seems to have had a passion for cities of Babylonia were ransacked for bookswhich related to the favorite studies of the As-syrian king, and a considerable body of scribeswas kept busily at work in copying and so re-editing the older literature of the country. Assur-bani-pal is never weary of telling us that theliterary treasures which he collected were for(he benefit of the people—that the ancient booksof Babylonia had been collected and re-editedfor the inspection of the reader. The con-tents of a Babylonian or Assyrian library weresufficiently varied. All the branches of theknowledge of the day were represented in and chronology, grammar a
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