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[1594] See above, pp. 183, 266.

[1595] See pp. 513 seq.

[1596] Babylonian and Assyrian kings alike speak constantly of their fear of the gods. See the passages in Delitzsch's Assyrisches Handwörterbuch, pp. 526, 527, to which many more could be added.

[1597] See, e.g., Nebuchadnezzar, IR. 53, col. i, l. 31.

[1598] IVR. 60, B obv. 25.

[1599] IVR. 60, C obv. 14.

[1600] So Sargon cylinder, ll. 34-42.

[1601] IR. 37, col. i. l. 4.

[1602] See the writer's remarks in Oriental Studies of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, pp. 119-121.

[1603] See the so-called family laws (as early as the days of Hammurabi) in Meissner's Beiträge zum Altbabylonischen Privatrecht, p. 15, where the punishment in the case of the son who casts aside his mother is specifically referred to.

[1604] See, e.g. p. 291.

[1605] See the admirable discussions on Babylonian jurisprudence in Kohler and Pelser's Aus dem Babylonischen Rechtsleben (parts i.-iii., Leipzig, 1890-97).

[1606] S. A. Strong in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1891, p. 460.

[1607] See on this subject Meissner, De Servitute Babylonico-Assyriaca pp. 3, 4, 40-49.

[1608] See especially chapters xxi., xxv., and xxvi.

[1609] See p. 611.

[1610] See Kohut, Die Jûdische Angelologie und Dämanologie in ihrer Abhängigkeit vom Parsismus (Leipzig, 1866).

[1611] Peters' Nippur, pp. 182, 395.

[1612] See, e.g., Layard, Nineveh and Babylon (New York edition, 1853), p. 509.

[1613] On the extent of the settlements of Jews in Nippur, see Hilprecht, Cuneiform Texts, ix. 27, 28.

[1614] So, e.g., on some of the bowls in the University of Pennsylvania collection, crude pictures of Bel-Marduk and Ishtar are portrayed.

[1615]Schöpfung und Chaos, pp. 381-397.

[1616] See pp. 432 seq.

[1617] "Ueber Gnosis und die Altbabylonlsche Religion," Verhandlungen des fünften Orientalisten Congress, 1881, ii. 288-305.

[1618]Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung des Gnostizismus (Leipzig, 1897).

[1619]I.e., Ea dwelling in the Apsu. See p. 430.

[1620] Anu, the source of all gods. See p. 417.

[1621]The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, pp. xii. seq.

[1622] See Anz, as above, pp. 78-85.

[1623] R. Brown, Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythology (London, 1898).

[1624]Western Origin of the Early Chinese Civilization (London, 1894).

[1625] A paper on this subject was announced by Jas. Kennedy at the Eleventh International Congress of Orientalists.

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