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See the passages in Jeremias' Die Babylonisch-Assyrischen Vorstellungen vom Leben nach dem Tode, p. 62. Sargon Annals, I. 156. Kosmologie, pp. 222-224. Gunkel's Schöpfung und Chaos, p. 154, note 5. In the later portions of the Old Testament, the use of Sheol is also avoided. See the passages in Schwally, Das Leben nach dem Tode nach den Vorstellungen des Alten Israels, pp. 59, 60.
For the Babylonian views contained in this chapter, see Alfred Jeremias, Die Babylonisch-Assyrischen Vorstellungen vom Leben nach dem Tode, pp. 112-116. An instructive instance is furnished by the mention of a mystic personage, "Homoroka," which now turns out to be as Professor J. H. Wright has shown a corruption of Marduk.
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