Word: sumerian
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...Sumerian 149. Sumerian Legal and Economic Texts...
...universal idea, common across cultures and through the centuries, the belief in angels comes close to it. Jews, Christians and Muslims have postulated endlessly about angels' nature and roles, but all three religions affirm their existence. There are angels in Buddhism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism; winged figures appear in ancient Sumerian carvings, Egyptian tombs and Assyrian reliefs. Visible or invisible, in disguise or in full glory, angels appear in more than half the books of the Bible: it was an angel who told Abraham to spare his son from sacrifice, who saved Daniel from the lion's den, who rolled...
...Science Center C Latin Aab 2 Divinity Ave., Rm 18 Literature and Arts A-50 A--L Memorial Hall M--Z Science Center Physics 123 Science Center D Slavic 103 Emerson 108 Slavic 113r Emerson 108 Slavic Aab Sever 214 Slavic Bab Emerson 108 Slavic Dc Emerson 108 Sumerian 234 2 Divinity Ave., Rm 18 Vietnamese B 2 Divinity Ave., Rm 18 Good Luck...
...from the beginning this "legal-minded people" had something to argue about, although they did agree about their origins. Johnson sifts the archaeological record and concludes, as does Genesis, that Abraham the patriarch came from Ur, a Sumerian city excavated in the 1920s and believed to have flourished in the fourth and third millenniums B.C. Such corroborations of ancient texts by modern scholars suit the author's purpose, which is to condense legend and fact into a flowing historical narrative...
...breakdown of booty taken in a conquest of neighboring Mari, 240 miles away: the victorious commander got 15%, the rest went to the king of Ebla. Along with some literary documents, Pettinato also discovered a spectacular bonus: bilingual dictionaries, the oldest ever found, matching Eblaite words to Sumerian equivalents -and confirming his readings of the new language...