The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.
史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。
Why does he go against the traditional Ancient Near Eastern practice of primogeniture, inheritance by the first born?
为什么他要违背传统古代近东的惯例,也就是长子继承制,由第一个儿子继承?
Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.
和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心
The worship practices of ancient Israel and Judah clearly resemble what we know of Canaanite and Ancient Near Eastern worship practices.
古代以色列和犹太崇拜仪式非常像,我们所知的迦南和古代近东的崇拜仪式。
They participated at the very earliest stages in the wider religious and cultic culture of the Ancient Near East.
他们从最初就影响着,广泛古代近东地区的宗教信仰。
He expressed his will that there be light, and there was light And that's very different from many Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies in which there's always a sexual principal at work in creation.
他表达意愿希望有光,于是便有了光,这与古代近东的宇庙学解释有很大出入,在其中,创世过程中有性的因素。
Now, Ancient Near Eastern suzerainty models also speak repeatedly of the vassal's love for the suzerain.
现在,近东古代的领主契约模式,也重复出现在奴隶对领主的赞美中。
This idea may be rooted in the Ancient Near Eastern political sphere in which sovereigns would single out vassals for the status of special property; and in fact the word used is a word we do find in Exodus.
这个观点也许根植在古代近东的政治氛围中,统治者会将纳贡者独立出来放在特有财产的地位上,并且实际上用在这里的词是我们在,出埃及记中的看到的词语。
And finally, also associated with Israel's God, we have Ancient Near Eastern holy war traditions.
最后,这也与以色列上帝有关联,我们知道古代近东的圣战传统。
There are lots of Ancient Near Eastern stories of ; Gods fashioning humans from clay; We have depictions of gods as potters at a potter's wheel just turning out lots of little humans.
也有很多古代近东故事,关于上帝用黏土造人;,我们看来上帝就像转盘旁边的陶艺工匠,造出许多小小的人类。
And the Ancient Near Eastern listener would prick up their ears: I thought I knew this story.
那些古代近东的听众们都竖起耳朵:,我原以为我知道这个故事。
This legendary birth story has important parallels in Ancient Near Eastern and other literature.
这个传奇的诞生也有对应的故事,在古代近东以及其他一些地区。
So Israelite accounts of creation contain ; clear allusions to and resonances of Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies; but perhaps Genesis 1 can best be described as Demythologizing what was a common cultural heritage.
以色列的创世故事中包含了,对古代近东宇宙学明确的影射和暗示;,也许《创世纪》可以被描述为,对共同文化遗产的去传奇化。
This is not the way it was in the ancient Near East.
这并不像古代近东
That was a story that surely was near and dear to the hearts of Many ancient Israelites and Ancient Near Eastern listeners, so all the elements are there for the retelling of that story.
这个故事必然对一些人来说亲近又珍贵,对那些古代以色列和近东的听众,那就具备了复述故事的一切要素。
It can be argued that the Ancient Near Eastern people with the most lasting legacy is a people that had an idea.
应该说,真正拥有持久遗赠的,古代近东人,是有新观点的人。
This by the way is the portrait of the world; It looks a lot like my map of the Ancient Near East, but it's not.
这也就是世界的图景;,就像我画的古代近东的地图,但它不是那样的。
And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.
在古代,战争的原因是,这小块矩形,长150公里,宽70公里,与罗德岛大小相当,这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。
In the Ancient Near East, destroyed cities tended to be leveled, and then a new city would just be built on top of the ruins, Tell Dor each one of those is called a tell These are mounds which represent the successive layers of destroyed and rebuilt cities.
在古代近东地区,被摧毁的城市一般较平坦,那么新城就可以建于废墟之上,这些土丘被称作“退尔“你们也许听过,这些就是小土丘,它们代表着一层层被摧毁又重建的城市。
And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.
很多学者,很多人都说,拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民,并不是那些修建并居住于,古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。
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