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- In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of books known as the Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Unlike other prophetic ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- ports, Crimea, Armenia, and Georgia on the north; Assyria, Cyprus, and Lebanon to the south; and Persia to the east. By that period the city took also ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- B.C.E. showing the core territory of Assyria with its two major cities ... When Assyria grew into an empire, it was divided into smaller parts ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- Poppy is the common name for any of the plants comprising the Papaver genus in the flowering plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by large ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- of Judah following the destruction of Israel by Assyria in the 720s B.C.E. "P" is often associated with the centralizing religious reforms instituted ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- weakness after a recent defeat by the Assyrians. Assyria, the major threat to Israel's power, had withdrawn itself temporarily due to internal strife ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, (1 Kings 11:26-39), was the first king of the break-away ten tribes or Kingdom ...17 KB (2,812 words) - 18:48, 23 June 2023
- Not all human-headed animals of antiquity are sphinxes. In ancient Assyria, for example, bas-reliefs of bulls with the crowned bearded heads ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- This system, which was built by Sennacherib of Assyria in 701 B.C.E., is not only evident in the archaeological remains, but is described in the Assyrian ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- *Maspero, Gaston. 2003. Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria. London: Kegan Paul International. ISBN 0710308833 ==Notes== ==References== ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- The nation of Ammon or the Ammonites were a people living east of the Jordan river whose origin in the Old Testament traces to Lot, the nephew ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- it may be that when the myth traveled inland to Assyria, and the hero became Assur instead of Bel-Marduk (and before him, perhaps, of Ea or Enlil), ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- the northern kingdom itself was destroyed by Assyria in 822 B.C.E. It was later obliterated by King Josiah of Judah during the religious reforms ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 04:06, 24 May 2024
- Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria], Volume 4 (of 12) Retrieved ... Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12),] Project ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the southern Levant from the eleventh century B.C.E until Roman times. The region ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- argues that "the omission of references to Assyria and Babylonia, classical enemies of the Jews, can hardly be explained as prudence growing out ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- The cult of Ea extended throughout Babylonia and Assyria. We find temples and shrines erected in his honor at Nippur, Girsu, Ur, Babylon, Sippar and Nineveh ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- ::Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, ::with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest… ::I made it beautiful with abundant branches, ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- Ezekiel (592 to 570 B.C.E.) (Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל—"God will strengthen") was a major prophet in the Hebrew Bible during the ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
