Word: babylon
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...Bible paints an unflattering portrait of Babylon as a corrupt civilization cursed by ambition, excess and power-hungry kings. In the Book of Genesis, its residents build the Tower of Babel in a vainglorious effort to reach heaven - and God strikes it down, angered by man's overweening pride. By the time of the New Testament, Babylon's image is even more sinister: the Book of Revelation personifies it as a whore seated on a dragon, condemning the city as "the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth...
Reviled and admired, envied and feared, Babylon - the remains of which lie some 50 miles (80 km) south of modern-day Baghdad - has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Despite its description by Greek historians as a center of political power, the fables tend to overshadow any sense of what the city was actually like. "Everyone knows the name and the legends of Babylon," says Francis Joannès, a professor of ancient history and Mesopotamia at the Sorbonne. "But what people don't necessarily know is its reality...
...Babylon," a stunning exhibition at the Louvre in Paris from March 14 to June 2, seeks to re-establish that reality. It deftly illustrates how 2,000 years of Babylonian history gave rise to manifold myths, and how European artists and thinkers responded to and transformed them. Put on jointly by the Louvre, Berlin's Staatliche Museum (where the exhibition moves on June 26) and London's British Museum (where it will open on Nov. 13), it's an unprecedented collaboration that brings together nearly 400 artifacts and pieces of art. Béatrice André-Salvini, a curator...
...wearily relates. “Everyone is so busy doing this or doing that.”From that point forward, Crow delivers five successive tracks with political content. She flashes some of her old colors on the album’s second cut, “Shine Over Babylon,” opening with the languidly conversational, almost flippant sort of vocals (more lazy recitation than melody) that were the hallmark of her number one hit “All I Wanna Do.” But here, again, the subject matter has a deeper bottom. There?...
...most vividly rendered lives in the Old Testament. His biography is accepted as fact by pious Jews and Christians, as are the book's details regarding the sack of Jerusalem, in which Nebo-Sarsekim reportedly participated, and the subsequent Jewish exile "by the rivers of Babylon," commemorated by the Book of Psalms and Bob Marley. Minimalists tend to regard it as a polemic, until proven otherwise...