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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

CHAPTER VIII
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Alterthum_, i.

191.
[135] The Hebrew word for prophet, _nabi_, is of the same stem as the Assyrian Nabu, and the popular tradition is placing the last scene in the life of Moses on Mt.

Nebo is apparently influenced by the fact that Moses was a _nabi_.
[136] See above, p.

123.
[137] So in the cylinder of Shamash-shum-ukin (Lehmann's publication, pls.viii.

_seq._).
[138] _E.g._, in the so-called Grotefend Cylinder, col.ii.


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