5] 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
Handwoerterbuch_, 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 _Beitraege 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 Judische Angelologie und Daemanologie in ihrer
Abhaengigkeit 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] _Schoepfung und Chaos_, pp. 381-397.
[1616] See pp. 432 _seq._
[1617] "Ueber Gnosis und die Altbabylonlsche Religion," _Verhandlungen
des fuenften 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 Orient
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