Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier question
17150Brothel(?).
17150If a man has broken into a house, one shall kill him before the breach and bury him in it(?).
17150If a man has hired a( boat?)
17150If he has hired a calf( goat?
17150Merchant, trader, relations with agent, 100- 107. official(?
17150Strength of a man, crown of the head(?
17150scale fixed by king, 44, 51. wages fixed for-- boatman, 6_ GUR_ of corn_ per annum_, 239. working ox, 4,,,, 242. cow in milk,(?)
37411( 10) Dhabitu( Tebet)''The cave of the dawn''(?)
37411( 3) Sivanu( Sivan)''Bricks''(?)
374111850 Samas- Rimmon I his son 1820 Igur- Kapkapu?
37411521 and 515(?).
37411Ada''si?
37411Bel- Kapkapu''the founder of the monarchy''?
37411Bel- basi his son?
37411In heaven, who is supreme?
37411Irisum his son?
37411Khallu?
37411On earth, who is supreme?
37411Samas- Rimmon II his brother?
37411Sin- sarra- iskun( Sarakos)?
2030The_ niggilma_ of the ground springs forth in abundance(?)!
2030), Thou man of Shuruppak, son of Ubar- Tutu, By our hand(?)
2030900(?)
2030And after he had called their names and they had been allotted to divine rulers(?
2030Dumuzi,(3), the hunter(?
2030For what then were the Semitic Babylonians themselves responsible?
2030For why is it we divide the day into twenty- four hours?
2030I gazed upon the quarters( of the world)--all(?)
2030The light of the hero, the Sun- god,( he) causes to enter into the interior(?)
2030We come then to the question, at what periods and by what process did the Hebrews become acquainted with Babylonian ideas?
2030What evidence, we may ask, does this early Sumerian Version offer with regard to the origin and literary history of the Hebrew Versions?
2030What explanation have we of this fact?
2030What light does it throw on the general character of Deluge stories and their suggested Egyptian origin?
2030What light then does our new material throw upon traditional origins of civilization?
2030What new light, then, do these old Sumerian records throw on Hebrew traditions concerning the early ages of mankind?
2030Ziusudu opened the opening of the great boat; The light of the hero, the Sun- god,( he) causes to enter into the interior(?)
2030Ziusudu, the king, Bows himself down before the Sun- god; The king sacrifices an ox, a sheep he slaughters(?).
2030against me by committing a Why didst thou not take counsel trespass, and I stretch out but didst cause a flood?
2030land, the land of(1) Then they took me and afar off, Dilmun(?
2030land,(1) the land(1) of Dilmun(?
2030mankind), The_ niggil(ma)_ of the earth they caused the earth to produce(?
2030of these cities, Eridu, he gave to the leader, Nu- dimmud, Secondly, to Nugira(?)
2030{''Alaparos(?
2030{''Otiartes(?
28072[ 35] How far did that diversity go? 28072 ***** When we attempt to mount the stream of history and to pierce the mists which become ever thicker as we near its source, what is it that we see? 28072 350- 3(?). 28072 Again, is not the building on the left of the picture obviously a flat- roofed house? 28072 And is not that enough to suggest a probable reason for the want of windows characteristic of an Oriental dwelling? 28072 And may not these groups, though distinct, have been more closely connected than the Jews were willing to admit? 28072 Are they ideographic signs or funeral offerings? 28072 But how to represent the wooded mountains on this side of the water? 28072 Can any other instance be cited of an art so well endowed entirely suppressing what we should call the civil element of life? 28072 Granting wooden roofs, how is such an accumulation to be accounted for? 28072 How many stages were there? 28072 In the case of vaults how are we to suppose that the rooms were lighted? 28072 Is it too much to suppose that by means of rivers and canals those of Nineveh may have been taken there too? 28072 M. Halévy has translated an Assyrian text, whose meaning he thus epitomizes:What becomes of the individual deposited in a tomb?
28072Must they not have trembled for the security of tombs surrounded by a rebellious and angry populace?
28072Must we believe that it was never finished or used?
28072Must we conclude that stone columns were unknown in Chaldæa and Assyria?
28072Must we take it to be the plan of his royal city as a whole, or only of his palace?
28072Nineveh,"the dwelling of the lions,""the bloody city,"saw its last day;"Nineveh is laid waste,"says the prophet Nahum,"who will bemoan her?
28072Supposing such an arrangement to have obtained in Mesopotamia, of what material were the piers or columns composed?
28072Was it impelled by mere inability to distinguish, by varieties of feature, form and attitude, between the different gods created by the imagination?
28072Was it the same in Chaldæa?
28072What then were we to make of these arched blocks, also coated with stucco, but found in the centre of the rooms and far away from the walls?
28072What, it is asked, do these men want with light?
28072When wooden roofs were used were they upheld by wooden uprights or by columns of any other material?
28072Why did art, in creating divine types, give such prominence to features borrowed from the lower animals?
28072Why is it that such works have perished and left no sign?
28072Why were these battlements given a height beyond those of the royal palace?
28072[ 325]?--ED.
28072[ 420] What then did the Assyrians do with their dead?