From the Banks of the Euphrates: Studies in Honor of Alice Louise Slotsky

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Micah Ross
Eisenbrauns, 2008. jan. 1. - 318 oldal

Although Near Eastern languages and the history of the exact sciences are known for being obscure and deliberately arcane to general audiences, Alice Slotsky has paradoxically established her legacy by exposing these topics to a wider audience. As a visiting professor at Brown University, Slotsky has taught more students than any previous Assyriologist and successfully brought this discipline to a wider audience than previously imagined possible. This volume, with articles written by former students, as well as colleagues, pays tribute to her broad interests.

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KUR When the Old Moon Can Be Seen a Day Later
1
Ancient Chronologys Alpha and Egyptian
35
Assyriology and English Literature
51
The Eyes of Nefertiti
83
or What Ever Became of Mesopotamian
99
House Omens in Mesopotamia and India
121
A Possible Substitution in the
135
Two Ivory Carvings from Hierakonpolis
169
Mesopotamian Sexagesimal Numbers in Indian
193
In Praise of the Just
207
A Short History of the Waters of the Firmament
227
Alls DUR That Ends Twr
245
Museum
265
A New Stone Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II
267
Some Details on the Transmission of Astral Omens
295

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227. oldal - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
230. oldal - Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; Awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old.
56. oldal - AND there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither ; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters : with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
230. oldal - Was it not thou that didst cut Ra'hab in pieces, that didst pierce the dragon? > Was it not thou that didst dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that didst make the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
60. oldal - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
227. oldal - Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.
67. oldal - He has had time to take care of his health and his spirits; he has been a great deal in the open air, which is the most salutary of all things for both body and mind ; and if he has never read the great Book in very recondite places, he has dipped into it and skimmed it over to excellent purpose. Might not the student afford some Hebrew roots, and the business man some of his half-crowns, for a share of the idler's knowledge of life at large, and Art of Living ? Nay, and the idler has another and...
67. oldal - I do not understand you," said Dorothea, startled and anxious. "I merely mean," said Will, in an offhand way, "that the Germans have taken the lead in historical inquiries, and they laugh at results which are got by groping about in woods with a pocket-compass while they have made good roads.
124. oldal - For our house is our corner of the world. As has often been said, it is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word.
51. oldal - Martha Pike Conant (The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century [New York: Columbia University Press, 1908...

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