The Story of Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Treated As
The Story of Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Treated As
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. " * 20. This was not the man to bow himself before * Translation of Professor A. H. Sayce.
2o8 THE STORY OF CHALDEA.
priestly power. Yet he was religious and had no idea of encroaching on the priesthood's rights in their own proper province. On the contrary, he assisted them in completing and bringing into defi- nite shape a vast religious reform which had been slowly working itself out ever since the Semitic and Accadian elements began to mix in matters of spir- itual speculation and worship.... What was the result of the amalgamation will form the subject of the next chapter. Suffice it here to say that the relig- ion of Chaldea in the systematic combination which it assumed under Sharrukin of Agade remained fixed forever, and when Babylonian religion is spoken of, it is that which is understood by that name. The great theological work demanded a lit- erary undertaking no less great. The incantations and magic forms of the first, purely Turanian period had to be collected and put in order, as well as the hymns and prayers of the second period, composed under the influence of a higher and more spiritual religious feeling.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
. " * 20. This was not the man to bow himself before * Translation of Professor A. H. Sayce.
2o8 THE STORY OF CHALDEA.
priestly power. Yet he was religious and had no idea of encroaching on the priesthood's rights in their own proper province. On the contrary, he assisted them in completing and bringing into defi- nite shape a vast religious reform which had been slowly working itself out ever since the Semitic and Accadian elements began to mix in matters of spir- itual speculation and worship.... What was the result of the amalgamation will form the subject of the next chapter. Suffice it here to say that the relig- ion of Chaldea in the systematic combination which it assumed under Sharrukin of Agade remained fixed forever, and when Babylonian religion is spoken of, it is that which is understood by that name. The great theological work demanded a lit- erary undertaking no less great. The incantations and magic forms of the first, purely Turanian period had to be collected and put in order, as well as the hymns and prayers of the second period, composed under the influence of a higher and more spiritual religious feeling.
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