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Accadian

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Ac`ca´di`an
a.1.Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.


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Pennsylvania) provides readers of the Hebrew Bible an overview and introduction to the comparative Near Eastern literature, encompassing Syrian-Palestinian, Mesopotamia, Egyptian, Anatolian, Persian, Urgartic, West Semitic, Hittite, Phoenician, Accadian, and other literature.
Finally KPR (excuse; as in Yore Kippur or the Day of Atonement) derives either from Accadian (to sweep, to clean), or from Arabic (to cover).
He begins with Babylonia before the Babylonians came--the Old Accadian and neo-Sumerian periods--and proceeds through Hammurabi's empire, the fall of Babylon, and the neo-Babylonian period.
 
 
 
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