Word: chaldean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most such visitors caught on in a few days and trotted along home like good little boys. One who didn't is the hero-or victim-of this novel, mild, baldish Dr. John Jones, Professor of the Assyrio-Bdbylonic, Chaldean, Phoenician, Etruscan and Turkish languages at St. Jude's Theological Seminary...
Jouncing in & out of wadis (valleys) in a locally built truck, the Mallowans scouted for Chaldean 600 B.C. tells (mounds) near the Habur and Jaghjagha rivers. To her consternation, Mrs. Mallowan was drafted as a gynecologist by the Arab women. Reports amateur gynecologist Mallowan: "The commonest gesture is an expressive rubbing of the abdomen. This has one of two meanings: a) acute indigestion, b) a complaint of sterility. Bicarbonate of soda does excellent work in the first case and has attained a somewhat surprising reputation in the second...
...There are about 400,000 Maronite Christians (about 50,000 in the U.S.). They have a Patriarch who lives in a monastery on Mount Lebanon. Their services are mostly in Syriac, the language in which the Chaldean astrologers spoke to Nebuchadnezzar. Maronites whose priests are trained in Rome but permitted to marry, are members of the Roman Catholic Church, and practice an ancient Catholic rite...
...played four-handed chess with Head Cabalist MacGregor Mathers, Mrs. Mathers and a ghost. It was sheer flapdoodle, but the images gave new energy to his verse. And in time this led to A Vision, one of the most astonishing books of the 20th Century, a sort of Irish-Chaldean Mein Kampf of the undermind...
Then there was Epstein's Christ, which one outraged cleric compared (with Empire inclusiveness) to "some degraded Chaldean or African . . . an Asiatic, American or Hun . . . some emaciated Hindu or badly grown Egyptian...