BABYLON AND PERSIA

^'CLASSIFIED CONTENTS.' ' VI.Migrations and Foreign Influences TheVendidad Heathen Revival TheKhordeh Avesta . . . . 113-168§1. Characterof the Vendidad.g 2. The three fundamen- ~tal principles of the priestly legislation.-§ 3. Power of thepriesthood.g 4. The Athravans and Zoroastrian sacrifice.g§ 5, 6. Holiness of an agricultural life.g 7. Care of thebody enjoined ; asceticism denounced.gg 8, g. Exposingof the dead.g 10. The Dakhma.g 11. Questions onpurity and pollution.g 12. Impurity of the Dakhmas.§ 13. Treatment of corpses in winter.g 14. Sinfulness ofburying a corpse.g 15. Impure creatures become clean bydying.g 16. On sickness.§ 17. On thriftiness.§ 18.The Nasu, or corpse-fiend. Rights of purification.g ig.Dangerous sinfulness of carrying a corpse alone. g 20. Onphysicians.g 21. Sacredness of the dog.g 22. Of thecock.g 23. Signs of nomadic life in the Vendidad.g 24.25. Turanian influences encountered by the Eranians intheir westward migration.gg 26,28. Traces of these influencesin the Avesta.g 29. Plebrew affinities.-gg 30-31.Puzzling penaliegislation.g 32. The " Khordeh-Avesta. "Heathen Revival.§ 33, 34. The Chinvat Bridge, and thetrials of the soul after death.g 35. High standard andbeauty of Mazdeism. lis high place among religions.VII.The Last Days of Judah . . . 169-1815g I. Affairs in Syria.2. Necho II. of Egypt plans an in¬vasion of Asia.g 3. His campaign in Syria.§ 4. Battleof Megiddo, and defeat of Josiah of Judah.§ 5. Battle ofKarkhemish ; defeat of Necho by Nebuchadrezzar.§ 6.The Median and Babylonian empires.§ 7. Submissionof Syria.g 8. The prophet Jeremiah.g 9. First takingof Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar.g 10-13. Jeremiah'spreaching and unpopularity.§ 14. Destruction of Jerusa¬lem.§ 15, 16. The siege of Tyre. Nebuchadrezzar.