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Title: The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

Author: Theophilus G. Pinches

Posting Date: January 30, 2009 [EBook #2069]
Release Date: February, 2000

Language: English

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THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA
By Theophilus G. Pinches, LL.D.

First Published 1906 by Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd.

THE RELIGION OF
BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

BY

THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D.

Lecturer in Assyrian at University College, London,
Author of "The Old Testament in the Light of the
Records of Assyria and Babylonia"; "The Bronze
Ornaments of the Palace Gates of Balewat" etc. etc.

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THE RELIGION OF THE
BABYLONIANS AND ASSYRIANS

CHAPTER I

FOREWORD

Position, and Period.

The religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians was the polytheistic
faith professed by the peoples inhabiting the Tigris and Euphrates
valleys from what may be regarded as the dawn of history until the
Christian era began, or, at