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Title: The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fallows, Samuel, 1835-1922 Zenos, Andrew C. (Andrew Constantinides), 1855-1942, joint ed Willett, Herbert L. (Herbert Lockwood), 1864-1944, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Chicago : The Howard-Severance company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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ere was a large proportion lower classes are indicated. It is evident, how-ever, that among the higher classes chairs, ta-bles and couches were used, and wines were theusual beverage at their feast. Among the mosthighly prized of these was that of Khilbun, orHelbon, which is mentioned by Ezekiel (xxvii:18). There was also a palm wine, made from dates,and beer, milk, cream, butter or ghee were muchused. The tables were ornamented with flowers,and musicians amused the banqueters. Next to hunting m&i, the great delight of theAssyrian kings was the hunt of wild animals.Tiglath-Pileser I had hunted elephants in the landof the Hittites, as the Egyptian Pharaohs haddone before him. The reem, or wild bull, after-wards became their favorite game. It was not un-til the reign of Assur-bani-pal that lion huntingceased to be a dangerous sport. With Esarhad-don, however, the old race of warrior kings hadcome to an end, and lions were afterward cap-tured and kept in cages, until they were turned
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Bas-relief Showing Assur-bani-pal and His Queen. of the people who could read and write. LikeBabylon, Assyria had her libraries, which werewell stocked with books in papyrus and clay.One of these was at Nineveh, from which mostof the Assyrian literature that we possess hascome. There was another at Calah, and anotherat Assur. Many of these books were lexicog-raphal, explaining the old Accadian and Aramaicforms. Aramaic was the language of diplomacy(2 Kings xviii:26), as well as of travel, andwas used side by side with the Syrian. Thisexplains why the Jews of the post-Babylonish cap-tivity gave up their language in favor, not ofthe Assyrian, but of the Aramaic tongue. All subjects of knowledge or science of thetimes were treated of in these libraries. Dis-patches of generals, bills of sale, astrology, omens,religion, songs, poetry and astronomy are allfound in these ancient books. Their works onastronomy show that records of eclipses had beenkept for great periods. Time was measured by
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