Assyriology

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Brown University suspended doctoral admissions for six humanities and social science programs, including Egyptology and Assyriology.

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always remember...

And it's, you know, so you can make a lot of, I guess, apologies for that.

But I think you have to kind of look a little deeper than into the history of the field of Sumerology and Assyriology to begin with.

And then you also have to consider, too, looking at the trajectory of Sitchin's, shall we say, ministry on the topic.

His very last lecture was actually about Jerusalem and how important it is that we make sure Jerusalem stays protected.

And so he started to denounce this, and his first work was called Babel and Bible.

And again, he was a leading Assyriologist at the time, and even his dad was too.

And so this guy had put the whole grammar of the ancient Mesopotamian language I mean, he was like key in establishing Assyriology.

So he was no small figure in this field.

Sure.

So it contributes to the area of Assyriology by studying a genre, namely fictional Akkadian autobiography.

And it provides a kind of formal background to biblical texts like the Book of Ecclesiastes, which is a framed autobiography.

That's good.

In order to extend his authority beyond the Euphrates, it was necessary for the king of Elam to be first of all master of Babylon.

In the early days of Assyriology, it was supposed that this period of Elamite supremacy coincided with the Median dynasty of Berosus.

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Assyrian empire thus absorbed Chaldea, reducing its states to feudal provinces and its princes to humble vassals.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by Gaston Maspero Honorable Doctor of Civil Laws and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford Member of the Institute and Professor at the College of France Edited by A.H. Sacy, Professor of Assyriology, Oxford Translated by M.L. McClure, Member of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund Editor's Preface Professor Maspero does not need to be introduced to us.

His name is well known in England and America as that of one of the chief masters of Egyptian science, as well as of ancient Oriental history and archaeology.

Alike as a philologist, a historian, and an archaeologist, he occupies a foremost place in the annals of modern knowledge and research.

In the case of Babylonia and Assyria he no longer, it is true, speaks at first hand.

But he has thoroughly studied the latest and best authorities on the subject, and has weighted their statements with the judgment which comes from an exhaustive acquaintance with a similar department of knowledge.

Naturally, in progressive studies like those of Egyptology and Assyriology, a good many theories and conclusions must be tentative and provisional only.

Discovery crowds so quickly on discovery that the truth of today is often apt to be modified or amplified by the truth of tomorrow.

Were it not that the Chaldean historian Berossos writes the name Zesethros, we should have no clue to its Semitic pronunciation.

Professor Maspero's learning and indefatigable industry are well known to me, but I confess I was not prepared for the exhaustive acquaintance he shows with Assyriological literature.

Nothing seems to have escaped his notice.

Papers and books just published, and half-forgotten articles in obscure periodicals which appeared years ago, have all alike been used and quoted by him.

Such cylinders may, of course, have been brought to the island in later times, but when we remember that a characteristic object of prehistoric Cypriot art is an imitation of the seal cylinder of Chaldea, their discovery cannot be wholly an accident.

Professor Maspero has brought his facts up to so recent a date that there is very little to add to what he has written.

Since his manuscript was in type, however, a few additions have been made to our Assyriological knowledge.

A fresh examination of the Babylonian dynastic tablet has led Professor Delitzsch to make some alterations in the published account of what Professor Maspero calls the ninth dynasty.

For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by Gaston Maspero, Honorable Doctor of Civil Laws and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, Member of the Institute and Professor at the College of France.

Edited by A.H. Sayce, Professor of Assyriology, Oxford.

Translated by M.L. McClure, Member of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

Editor's Preface Professor Maspero does not need to be introduced to us.

In the case of Babylonia and Assyria he no longer, it is true, speaks at first hand.

But he has thoroughly studied the latest and best authorities on the subject, and has weighted their statements with the judgment which comes from an exhaustive acquaintance with a similar department of knowledge.

Naturally, in progressive studies like those of Egyptology and Assyriology, a good many theories and conclusions must be tentative and provisional only.

Discovery crowds so quickly on discovery that the truth of today is often apt to be modified or amplified by the truth of tomorrow.