Note 48 — Chapter IV · A New Interpretation
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See H. R. Hall, The Ancient History of the Near East, London, 1913, p. 466, for a brief statement of the facts. For the idea of a buffer state in this connection, compare E. Klamroth, Die wirtschaftliche Lage und das geistige Lehen der jüdischen Exulanten in Babylonien. Diss. Königsberg, 1912, p. 20, n. 4.