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Archaeological school of thought
Panbabylonism
(also known as
Panbabylonianism
) was the school of thought that considered the cultures and religions of the
Middle East
and civilization in general to be ultimately derived from Babylonian myths which in turn they viewed as being based on
Babylonian astronomy
, often in hidden ways.
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Overview
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A related school of thought is the Bible-Babel school, which regarded the
Hebrew Bible
and
Judaism
to be directly derived from
Mesopotamian (Babylonian) mythology
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citation needed
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; both are forms of
hyperdiffusionism in archaeology
.
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Both theories were popular in Germany, and Panbabylonism remained popular from the late 19th century to
World War I
. Prominent advocates included
Friedrich Delitzsch
,
Peter Jensen
,
Alfred Jeremias
and
Hugo Winckler
.
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Panbabylonist thought largely disappeared from legitimate scholarship after the death of one of its greatest proponents, Hugo Winckler.
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The claims of the school were largely discredited by astronomical and chronological arguments of
Franz Xaver Kugler
(a
Jesuit
priest).
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See also
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References
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- ^
Toy, Crawford H.
(1910). "Panbabylonianism".
Harvard Theological Review
.
3
(1): 47?84.
doi
:
10.1017/S0017816000005782
.
JSTOR
3142227
.
S2CID
248820620
.
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a
b
Brown, Peter Lancaster (2000).
Megaliths, Myths, and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology
(Dover ed.). Mineola, NY: Dover Publications. p. 267.
ISBN
9780486411453
.
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Gold, Daniel. (2003).
Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion: Modern Fascinations
.
University of California Press
. pp. 149-158.
ISBN
978-0520236141
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Scherer, Frank F. (2015).
The Freudian Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitic Challenge, and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse
. Kanarc Books. p. 18.
ISBN
978-1-78220-296-7
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Jong, Teije de.
Babylonian Astronomy 1880-1950: The Players and the Field
. In Alexander Jones,
Christine Proust
, John M. Steele. (2016).
A Mathematician's Journeys: Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science
. Springer. pp. 285-286.
ISBN
978-3-319-25863-8
Further reading
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- Anonymous. (1912).
Some Recent Books on Panbabylonism
.
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
1 (3): 563?578.
- G. H. Richardson. (1916).
The Abuse of Biblical Archaeology
.
The Biblical World
47 (2): 94?99.
- Bill T. Arnold and David B. Weisberg. (2002). "A Centennial Review of Friedrich Delitzsch's "Babel und Bibel" Lectures."
Journal of Biblical Literature
121/3: 441?57.
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