The Marduk Letters
The Marduk Letters

Author: Wilbur Reid

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-09-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1725290464

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Our Father Below is pleased with the work of the demons in the Lowerarchy of hell to create division and contention among the people of Earth in the twenty-first century. However, he is angered by the growing interest in the ideas of humility and zeal that Christian leaders have discovered in the Enemy’s two-thousand-year-old propaganda. These ideas have been formalized into two related, abhorrent concepts: servant leadership and level 5 leadership. Servant leadership describes individuals who begin with a natural desire to serve first, and then conscious choice causes them to aspire to lead. Level 5 leadership, from Good to Great by Jim Collins, combines the paradoxical blend of humility and zeal. Marduk, a thoroughly ruthless and cruel demon, mentors his naïve and hapless nephew Slugtoad. Marduk assigns Slugtoad to a male and a female patient in America who have the potential to be strong Christian leaders. In his letters, Marduk advises Slugtoad to guide the patients away from effective leadership. The first section of the book is comprised of the Marduk letters, while the second section provides the scholarship and research of servant and level 5 leadership.

Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mesopotamian Tradition
Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mesopotamian Tradition

Author: Mary Frazer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-06-17

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 9004685944

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Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mespotamian Tradition reconsiders the question of the authenticity of the letters attributed to earlier royal correspondents that were studied in Assyrian and Babylonian scribal centres ca. 700–100 BCE. By scrutinizing the letters’ contents, language, possible transmission histories ca. 1400–100 BCE and the epistemic limitations of authenticity criticism, the book grounds scepticism about the letters’ authenticity in previously undiscussed features of the texts. It also provides a new foundation for research into the related questions of when and why these beguiling texts were composed in the first place.

Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal
Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal

Author: Ashurbanipal (King of Assyria)

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9781575061382

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Eisenbrauns is pleased to announce this quality reprint of Simo Parpola's classic work, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. "Part II: Commentary and Appendices" originally appeared in 1983 as AOAT 5/2

Letters in the Louvre
Letters in the Louvre

Author: Veenhof

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9047416872

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This book is the fourteenth volume in the series Altbabylonische Briefe in Umschrift und Übersetzung, which aims to make the many — often dispersed — letters from the Old Babylonian period available in transliteration and translation. Volume 14 collects 226 Old Babylonian letters from The Louvre.

Letters in the British Museum
Letters in the British Museum

Author: W H Van Soldt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-08-14

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9004672249

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This source publication of two hundred Old Babylonian letters provides important new information on the administration of the city of Larsa at the time of Hammurabi and gives rare insights in different subjects, such as the building of a house, and others.

The Splintered Divine
The Splintered Divine

Author: Spencer L. Allen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1614512361

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This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ištar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around four key questions: How did the ancients define what it meant to be a god - or more pragmatically, what kind of treatment did a personality or object need to receive in order to be considered a god by the ancients? Upon what bases and according to which texts do modern scholars determine when a personality or object is a god in an ancient culture? In what ways are deities with both first and last names treated the same and differently from deities with only first names? Under what circumstances are deities with common first names and different last names recognizable as distinct independent deities, and under what circumstances are they merely local manifestations of an overarching deity? The conclusions drawn about the singularity of local manifestations versus the multiplicity of independent deities are specific to each individual first name examined in accordance with the data and texts available for each divine first name.