By P. R. Ackroyd, C. F. Evans
Quantity 1 of The Cambridge background of the Bible matters the earliest interval right down to Jerome and takes as its important subject matter the method through which the books of either Testaments got here into being and emerged as a canon of scripture, and using canonical writings within the early church.
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In 1265 there were twenty-five Asiatic provinces, with seventy bishoprics, in Persia, Mesopotamia, Khorasan, Turkistan, India and China. At one time it looked as though the Mongol emperor Qubilay Khan (1216-94) might adopt Christianity; his brother Hulagu Khan, who in 1258 captured Baghdad and put an end to the Abbasid caliphate, and was the first to assume the title of Il-Khan, had a Christian wife; he accorded special favours to the Nestorian patriarch and to his Church. Half a century later, the seventh Khan chose Islam as the state religion.
C. ). Among others, Ankhef-en-Sekhmet traces 60 generations over 1,300 years to c. C. '4 All civilisations are aware of the past but record it in different ways. That the Egyptian and Mesopotamian epics and historiography could have been known to the Hebrews cannot be doubted, for a 1 S. N. Kramer, 'Cuneiform Studies and the history of Literature: the Sumerian Sacred Marriage Texts', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, cvn (1963), 486-9. 2 So J. J. Finkelstein, 'Mesopotamian Historiography', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, evil (1963), 461-72.
On a large tablet the text would be written in columns running left to right on the obverse and right to left on the reverse. A few large and bulky tablets were read in columns and turned over as one would the folios of a modern book. Some contracts were safeguarded by the repetition of the text (later of a summary only) on a sealed clay envelope which could be 'opened' if directed by a judge. There were local variations in the shape and colour of tablets, as in the ductus and characteristics of the script, but the basic form never changed from its inception c.