Betting on the Right Horse: Loyalty in the Early Years of the Neo-Babylonian Empire

Levavi, Yuval

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“…The final sentence goes: “Now, they are with you. I, Abu-Nādib and his en-kaskal ii will be with my Lord in the early morning.” Levavi (2018: 479) and Beaulieu (1989: 83) translate the word as a “caravan leader.” In all the letters, though, both those addressed to the Assyrian king as well as in CT 22 185 = DUBSAR 3 no. 204, it is a matter of exchanging envoys, sending emissaries.…”

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Never Ending Story: Some News About the Gang From Uruk

Tarasewicz¹

2022

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Never Ending Story: Some News About the Gang From Uruk

Tarasewicz¹

2022

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“… 1 For an overview of the “Eanna archive”—to which scholars can assign about 8000 tablets and fragments spanning from the final years of the Neo-Assyrian period to the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods—see Levavi 2018: 23–25.…”

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Tallying in the Eanna

Levavi¹

2022

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The present contribution presents a previously unidentified and unique tallying system found on Late-Babylonian tablets from the Eanna temple archive. The tallies are composed of a series of nine vertical wedges, grouped in triplets, followed by a Winkelhaken. The vertical wedges can stand for either 1 or 10, and the Winkelhaken concludes the series as either 10 or 100, respectively. So far, this system is attested only on administrative tablets from the Eanna from the first two decades of Nebuchadnezzar II's reign (ca. 604–585 BCE). While the tally system itself is unique, the grouping, or chunking, of verticals in triplets suggests Aramaic influence.

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Priests, Levites, and the NasiNew Roles in Ezekiel’s Future Temple

Ganzel

2020

The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel

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In evaluating the roles of the temple personnel in Ezekiel’s vision of the future temple (Ezekiel 40–48), three spheres of concern are taken into account: the broader biblical context, the more restricted context of the book of Ezekiel, and the Babylonian backdrop of his prophecies. This chapter demonstrates that the temple functionaries differ from their biblical precedents, on the one hand, and from what was known of their Babylonian environment on the other. What determines the roles of the priests, the Levites, and the nasi in Ezekiel’s temple vision is the driving theological force of preserving the temples’ sanctity. Thus, for example, the uniquely positioned nasi integrates the roles of two Babylonian temple officials; unlike the Babylonian functionaries, however, the nasi is not second to a human king, but answers only to God.

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Betting on the Right Horse: Loyalty in the Early Years of the Neo-Babylonian Empire

Cited by 4 publications

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Never Ending Story: Some News About the Gang From Uruk

Never Ending Story: Some News About the Gang From Uruk

Tallying in the Eanna

Priests, Levites, and the NasiNew Roles in Ezekiel’s Future Temple

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