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Jack Kemp & the Whole Nine Yards; The '96 Hopeful, Chewing the Fat and Choking Down His Ire
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Never let it be said about Jack Kemp that he can't talk and
chew pasta at the same time.
"We've redlined the whole country!" the secretary of housing
and urban development was shouting over lunch today, as he touted
his idea to give tax breaks to businesses that move to the inner
cities. "There's no capital! There's no oxygen! We're starving!
We're choking! The inner city is choking the most, and we sit
around debating, talking and eating pasta! Aren't you offended?"
Soon, however, it was Kemp who was choking - something had
lodged in his throat, he complained to a tableful of ...
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The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...events of the campaign to unseat Merodach-Baladan and bring Babylonia under Assyrian...Sargon to send troops against Merodach-Baladan (no. 22). Reports from...reports on the whereabouts of Merodach-Baladan. One of them (no. 55) states...
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Name game.(M.E.M.O)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...to avoid hyphenated first names, like Merodach-Baladan (Isa. 39:1), which is the Assyrian for "Merodach [a god] has given a son." Still...equal time to all gods, why not honor Merodach? Members of the Christian right who...
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Te[CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]umman in the Neo-Assyrian Correspondence.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...Nabu-zer-kitti-lisir, governor of the Sealand and a son of Merodach-baladan, had attacked Ur without success in 680 and then fled to Elam...and the Sealand subsequently faced the threat of another son of Merodach-balada
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Who Were the Babylonians?
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...cosmogonies of the Enuma Elish and Genesis 1-2. A. also provides detailed information concerning Neo-Babylonian Merodach-Baladan, Nebuchadnezzar II, and Nebuzaradan, household names in the Bible but admittedly somewhat obscure to the general...
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Book reviews -- Text and Transmission: An Empirical Model for the Literary Development of Old Testament Narratives by Hans Jurgen Tertel
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...agent-patient reversals in Sennacherib's first campaign is less significant that the interplay between him and Merodach-baladan. The only drama in the first attested edition lies in the initial defeat of the Assyrian advance forces, and its...
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The Pantheon of Uruk during the Neo-Babylonian Period.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...Nanaya. Theologically, Istar was also identified with the goddess Beltu-sa-Res. As seen from an inscription of Merodach-Baladan II composed at the end of the eighth century, Istar bore the title Lady-of-Uruk, while Nanaya was considered...
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L'oracle de Nathan et l'unité du livre d'Isaïe
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...and full weaponry. But even Hezekiah succumbs to the glamor of gold and weapons; he proudly shows them all to Merodach-baladan's envoys. In response, Isaiah predicts the next stage of emptying and purification, the Babylonian exile...
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Parental love as metaphor for divine-human love
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; ...refer to himself as "the son of his god" or be named for a given deity (e.g. Marduk-Apal-Iddina = biblical Merodach Baladan). Interestingly, the same king would at times refer to himself as son of more than one male or female deity...
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Sainsbury's takes carrots back to their purple roots.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...2000BC depict a plant believed to be a purple carrot and one has also been identified in the garden of Egyptian king Merodach-Baladan, who ruled in the 8th century BC. In Roman times, carrots were purple and sometimes white. Purple, white and...
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