题目解析：
【题目翻译】在第2段中，为什么作者指出巴比伦抄写员被指派为自己的女神？
A：解释为什么巴比伦文士被赋予写法律的责任。
B：说明抄写员在巴比伦社会是强大的这一事实的后果。
C：解释为什么随着时间的推移，巴比伦抄写员不再记录商业交易。
D：解释巴比伦文士是如何与战争的象征联系在一起的。
【判定题型】：根据题干问法“why …… point out”，题目询问“xxxxxx”(文章引用内容)的修辞目的，可以判断本题为修辞目的题。
【关键词定位】本题根据题干中给出的Babylonian scribes和assigned their own goddess定位到这一句：Nisaba, later replaced by the god Nabu of Borsippa, whose symbol is neither weapon nor dragon but something far more fearsome, the cuneiform stick.
【引用内容分析】本句的大致意思是人们的女神一直在换，女神手里拿的东西也在换，从武器到龙，最后换成了楔形石板。实际上体现了楔形文字越来越重要。
【选项分析】
A.选项A的意思是为了解释为什么楔形文字负责书写法律，不符文意，错误。
B.选项B符合文意，正确。
C.选项C的意思是解释为什么楔形文字不再记录商业往来了，不符文意，错误。
D.选项D的意思是解释为什么楔形文字开始和战争联系在一起，不符文意，错误。
Cuneiform writing lasted for some 3,000 years, in a vast line of succession that ran through Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Nineveh, and Babylon, and preserved for us fifteen languages in an area represented by modern-day Iraq, Syria, and western Iran. The oldest cuneiform texts recorded the transactions of tax collectors and merchants, the receipts and bills of sale of an urban society. They had to do with things like grain, goats, and real estate. Later, Babylonian scribes recorded the laws and kept other kinds of records. Knowledge conferred power. As a result, the scribes were assigned their own goddess, Nisaba, later replaced by the god Nabu of Borsippa, whose symbol is neither weapon nor dragon but something far more fearsome, the cuneiform stick.
