Название: The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Автор: Morris Jastrow
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Документальная литература
isbn: 4057664627629
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Location and Names of the Gathering Place of the Dead.
The Condition of the Dead and the Impossibility of an Escape from Aralû.
The Tombs and the Burial Customs.
The Construction and Character of the Zikkurats.
The Temple and the Sacred Quarter.
The Names of the Zikkurats and Temples.
The Sacred Objects in the Temples,—Altars, Vases, Images, Basins, Ships.
Sacrifices and Votive Offerings.
General Estimate and Influence.
HANDBOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
(From a drawing by Mr. J. HORACE FRANK.)]
THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA.
CHAPTER I.—INTRODUCTION.
SOURCES AND METHODS OF STUDY.
I.
Until about the middle of the 19th century, our knowledge of the religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians was exceedingly scant. No records existed that were contemporaneous with the period covered by Babylonian-Assyrian history; no monuments of the past were preserved that might, in default of records, throw light upon the religious ideas and customs that once prevailed in Mesopotamia. The only sources at command were the incidental notices—insufficient and fragmentary in character—that occurred in the Old Testament, in Herodotus, in Eusebius, Syncellus, and Diodorus. Of these, again, only the two first-named, the Old Testament and Herodotus, can be termed direct sources; the rest simply reproduce extracts from other works, notably from Ctesias, the contemporary of Xenophon, from Berosus, a priest of the temple of Bel in Babylonia, who lived about the time of Alexander the Great, or shortly after, and from Apollodorus, Abydenus, Alexander Polyhistor, and Nicolas of Damascus, all of whom being subsequent to Berosus, either quote the latter or are dependent upon him.
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