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Also, Saddam has bolstered Iraqi nationalism by linking his regime with the ancient Babylonian empire, constructing massive monuments that celebrate the parallels.
Mizrahi (or “eastern”) Jews are from West Asia, Central Asia, and North Africa, including black-eyed, high-cheekboned Yemenite Jews; Jews from the mountains of Kurdistan and the dusty plateaus of Bukhara; and Iraqi Jews, whose community existed from the days of the Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century b.c. until modern times.
From antiquity many such chameleonic switchovers are preserved on papyrus, parchment, stone, and bone and in clay, Greek letters serving to write Demotic Egyptian, Babylonian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Indian, and Latin.
In addition there are objects of ancient Babylonian and Persian origin.
There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.
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