The paper clarifies the literary function of Shevchenko’s “Jeremiah’s prayer”. At same time, it raises question poet’s identification and self-identification with Prophet Jeremiah because these issues can only be addressed in conjunction. Based on findings many researchers prayer” discussion between Shchurat Franko 1904 about Shevchenko Jeremiah, author concludes that is an epigraph not a rough...

Unlike Egypt, Iraq accommodated not one but two provincial identities, the Assyrian and the Babylonian. Both cultures had of course suffered violent destruction on their fall a thousand years before the Arab conquests as Nabopolassar and the Medes turned Assyria into ' heaps and ruins' in 612 B.C. so Xerxes razed the walls of Babylon, expropriated its citizens and turned its god into bullion af...