History of Babylonia and Assyria

Hugo Winckler

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Dr. Winckler is facile princeps in the field of historical research covered by the following vol ume. He has not only the great advantages of being one of our foremost Semitic linguists, and a specialist in Assyriology but is also naturally endowed, as few men are, for the constructive work of the historiographer. Perhaps to no one of the present generation of Semitic scholars, more than to him, are the workers in the various fields of Semitic Literature and History indebted. He has been for a quarter of a century not merely a rehearser of verified facts in this new and difficult domain but an indefatigable discoverer of new facts which, with his brilliant historical imagination, he has always known how to illu minate. It was, therefore, a matter of self-congratula tion when the present editor secured his consent to revise his Geschichte in the light of the knowl edge gained since it was published in 1899 as a contribution to the Weltgeschichte of Dr. H. F.

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243617470
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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is f in thefield of historical research cover d by the following vol ume He has not only the great advantages of being one of our foremost Se tic linguists and specialist in Assyriolo y but is also naturally endowed as few men are for the constructive work of the histo riographer Perhaps to no one of the present generation of Sem tic scholars more than to him are the workers in the various fiSemiticelds of L iterature and History indebted He has been for a quarter of a century not merely a rehearser of verified facts in this new and domain but an indefatigable discoverer of new facts which th his br lliant historical magination he has always known how to illu minate It was therefore a matter of self congratula tion when the present editor secured his consent to revise his in the light of the knowl edge gained since it was published in as a contribution to the of F

Not o ly were important additio made to the work as it wasfirst presented and modifications of many portions thereof intro but the author has also carefully reviewed the translation and has made use of this ity to add further corrections to the ori inal te x t have endeavored to give an accurate renderin of the original and at the same time a readable En lish translation which hope will not too often betray an unconscious inflTeutonicuence of modes of thou ht and e x andpression Here there had introduced a sentence or two of my own for purposes of further elucidatio without i dicatin that they were not the author s To the footnotes have added have enerally my name have not considered it sary to distin uish as is often done between the spellings the god the land of Assy ia trust that the historical order followed in this work will be fo d to justify itself in the use of it The leadin r le played by Babylonia in the history of the ancient O the fourrient durin of her history in thefield of politic well as of culture not only excuses the plan adopted but also entitles this ancient land to a treatment of her history apart from that of Assyri advantageous from some points of view

RF C as the combined treatment may fact it is only by the method here followed that the student who is not already familiar with the progress of the history of the two states can readily gain a orrect u derstanding of their peculiar character and relative importance in the histo ry civilization It is with the earnest hope that this new and revised edition may be fou d more adequately to me t the wants of that growing body of students in our colleges and theological seminaries who perceive the almost unique impo rtance of this study in relation to our knowledge of the his tory of civilization its culture art and rel gion that the editor has undertaken the work of trans lation which called for a special k owledge of the subject entire work the to which as above stated the present volume in its original fo rm was contributed was published in English some years ago by Wm Heinema n in L Historytitle The World s ondon under the and by odd Mead Co in this cou try with the consent of both of whom this work is published A I U J

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