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Mesopotamia
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  • You know, to the Mesopotamians, there was no independent concept of evil.†   (source)
  • My Mesopotamian history is rusty," Hiro says.†   (source)
  • Mesopotamia was Abraham's homeland and he wanted Isaac to have a wife from there.†   (source)
  • Hammurabi's were partly based on Mesopotamian traditions that were old even then.†   (source)
  • Let me tell you about ancient Mesopotamia.†   (source)
  • Dressed very much, I might mention, in the style of Mesopotamian kings.†   (source)
  • Who but a halfwit Mesopotamian, some blundering antique Arab, would believe it!†   (source)
  • SUNLIGHT: So we come to the subject of the Mesopotamian dead.†   (source)
  • But in Mesopotamian culture, the smell was purged!†   (source)
  • Consider with your soft Judeo-Christian eyes the flat absurdity of the Mesopotamian gods.†   (source)
  • Allow me to quote from Kramer, Samuel Noah, and Maier, John R. Myths of Enki, the Crafty GocL New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989: 'Religion, magic, and medicine are so completely intertwined in Mesopotamia that separating them is frustrating and perhaps futile work.†   (source)
  • Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, for students of human character there are no more valuable books on earth than the books of ancient Mesopotamia and India and Egypt.†   (source)
  • I grant you, it's obvious that the system didn't work in ancient Mesopotamia--but compare the failure of Israel, where law was wholly rational, as no one has shown more clearly than Spinoza, in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, or whatever it's called.†   (source)
  • Suppose an ancient Mesopotamian came to us now, having read all our books but remembering his own culture.†   (source)
  • The Mesopotamian gods, on the other hand, reside in their images, and the images are nothing more, nothing less, than dolls.†   (source)
  • No doubt one can explain it geographically--the Mesopotamian peoples had better land than the Hebrews--but that misses the point.†   (source)
  • In ancient Mesopotamian politics, exactly as in ancient Mesopotamian religion, there's a sharp distinction between the practical, that is, the physical, and the spiritual.†   (source)
  • There's an old Mesopotamian story, very famous--it's one of the Naram-Sin legends; survives not only in texts from Nineveh and Harran but in Old Babylonian too.†   (source)
  • Imagine a Mesopotamian city.†   (source)
  • While the Hebrews moved from place to place with their sheep, turning green meadows into enormous deserts, indifferent as any intellectual to earth, the Mesopotamian peoples studied it, toyed with it, experimented with it as elaborately as they experimented with, for instance, sex.†   (source)
  • I never learned anything about her except that she had a brother in the FiftySecond Division and a brother in Mesopotamia and she was very good to Catherine Barkley.†   (source)
  • One had read it in the papers, seen it in the films, heard it at cafe tables again and again for six or seven years now, till it had become part of one's experience, at second hand, like the mud of Flanders and the flies of Mesopotamia.†   (source)
  • In the figures of the gods that have come down from ancient Mesopotamia (Sumer and Akkad, Babylonia and Assyria) the thunderbolt, in the same form as the vajra, is a conspicuous element (see Figure 6z); from these it was inherited by Zeus.†   (source)
  • She came to see me and, again, I must reduce to a few words a conversation which took us from Holywell to the Parks, through Mesopotamia, and over the ferry to north Oxford, where she was staying the night with a houseful of nuns who were in some way under her protection.†   (source)
  • Wherever the Mesopotamian influence extended, the traits of the goddess were touched by the light of this fluctuating star.†   (source)
  • The greatest talc of the elixir quest in the Mesopotamian, pre-biblical tradition is that of Gilgamesh, a legendary king of the Sumerian city of Erech, who set forth to attain the watercress of immortality, the plant "Never Grow Old."†   (source)
  • ]' He turned towards the lama, to whom he might as well have talked of Mesopotamia.†   (source)
  • There was another good part, that of the king of Mesopotamia; but through so many interruptions, it was difficult to make out what end he served.†   (source)
  • …profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.†   (source)
  • Many of the villages of Mesopotamia are built of second-hand bricks of a very good quality, obtained from the ruins of Babylon, and the cement on them is older and probably harder still.†   (source)
  • I have it from my husband, who is a cinquantenier**, at the Parloir-aux Bourgeois, and who was this morning comparing the Flemish ambassadors with those of Prester John and the Emperor of Trebizond, who came from Mesopotamia to Paris, under the last king, and who wore rings in their ears.†   (source)
  • 24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.†   (source)
  • Noble Ventidius, Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media, Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony Shall set thee on triumphant chariots, and Put garlands on thy head.†   (source)
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