Word: tempter
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...with all the gods, and is afterwards overcome by one of their number. The sacred tree plays a large part in the Assyrian sculpture and carvings, and so do the winged composite creatures answering to the Hebrew cherubim; but the account of a seduction of man by a tempter has not yet come to light. Corresponding to the ten antediluvian patriarchs of Genesis, the Babylonians believed in ten kings whose reign had extended over a fabulous period of time. The deluge story, which is an episode in the national epic, is too similar to the version in Genesis...