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SURVEY AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF WATER SYMBOLISM IN THE ANCIENT BABYLONIAN AND EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGICAL CYCLES
This thesis focuses primarily upon obtaining a greater understanding of Babylonian and Egyptian mythical environments, through the use of water symbolism within the physical and mythological frames of their cosmological ... -
The Judeans of Elephantine : an examination of the Elephantine communities in Egypt during the Persian period
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2014)The central question of this thesis is to determine the underlying reasons behind the destruction of the temple of Yahu in Elephantine. I intend to bring together an examination of the Judean community in the Egyptian ...