Myths of Babylonia and Assyria (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781718774698)

Ancient Babylonia has made stronger appeal to the imagination of Christendom than even Ancient Egypt, because of its association with the captivity of the Hebrews, whose sorrows are enshrined in the familiar psalm: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; Yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows.... In sacred literature proud Babylon became the city of the anti-Christ, the symbol of wickedness and cruelty and human vanity. Early Christians who suffered persecution compared their worldly state to that of the oppressed and disconsolate Hebrews, and, like them, they sighed for Jerusalem-the new Jerusalem.

Author: Donald A. MacKenzie
ISBN-10: 1718774699
ISBN-13: 9781718774698
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2018
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.55d