Come With Me into Babylon: A Story of the Fall of Nineveh - Couverture souple

Ward, Josiah M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0548290636 ISBN 13 : 9780548290637

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Nineveh have clustered some very interesting Greek legends which passed current until modem exploration relegated them to the limbo of history with the fables of Semiramis and of Cyrus smidnight entry into Babylon. Not even the exact date of this unparallelled collapse of a nation is accurately known. The exact manner of the capture of the city is equally obscure, and the Greek tradition merely confuses. I have accepted the date 606 b. c. for the obliteration of the Assyrian Empire, the Book of Nahum as a descriptive foundation, and part of the Greek myth as adventitious pigment. In the matter of proper names it was found convenient to curtail the polysyllabic Assyrian and Babylonian titles, and also to use the commonly accepted forms. Nebuchadnezzar, for instance, would hardly be recognized under his Babylonian name of Nabu-K udur-utsur. With A ssurbanipal, however, the correct reading was preferred to the biblical A snapper or the Greek Sardanapalus. It was not A ssurbanipal, it may be added, who made a sacrifice of himself and perished with Nineveh, but Sin-sariskun probably his grandson. A question still unsettled is the ancestry of Nebuchadnezzar, with which I have taken a few liberties. As the Sargonidae are alluded to in several passages, this list of the Kings of that dynasty, with the dates of their accession, may be of interest: Sargon, usurper 722 b. c. Sennacherib 705 b. c. Esarhaddon 681 b. c. Assurbanipal 668 b. c. Assurbanipal died c. 640, and was succeeded by a son. Here set in the twilight that preceded lve d% cS. A ssyiiaa history.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548290636
• ISBN 13: 9780548290637
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: McBurney James E, Gilbert W B
• Nombre de pages: 476
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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