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discovery was of the palace of the Assyrian King Sargon II. He unearthed ... turned to be the palace of Sargon II, an Assyrian king who reigned from 722 ...

forth and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp (2 Kings 19:35). The ... Some of the Assyrian chronicles, such as the stone carved Taylor Prism ...

became interested in learning the ancient Assyrian language in 1872, when he ... free time he had from his job studying Assyrian, and he often walked down ...

B.C.E. during the ascendancy of the early Assyrian Empire. Micah decried the ... God's love and mercy for His people and promising the coming ...

to the Nestorian schism, separating the Assyrian Church of the East from ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...

the vengeance that He will wreak on the Assyrian empire. Though the text ... and repressive rule of the Assyrian people. Indeed, the prophet ...

, was the capital of the ancient Neo-Assyrian Empire. It lay on the eastern ... B.C.E. It was destroyed when the Assyrian Empire collapsed c. 612 ...

of Israelite/Jewish history—from the Assyrian period to the Persian. In ... – a prophet from the Assyrian period, Hosea's text is most ...

millennium, and stage 6 represents Old Assyrian of the early second millennium ... and by 2000 B.C.E., had evolved into Old Assyrian cuneiform, with many modifications ...

Ecclesiastical History of the English People provides the best information ... The Assyrian Church of the East recognizes as Doctors of the Church ...

of Antioch (Patriarch 398-404) among the people of Constantinople may have ... up a disturbance and discord among the people with an outcry, as though ...

Amon, by court officials and the "people of the land." Both international ... possible largely due to the waning of Assyrian power in the region while ...

The Assyrian king list calls him "Sargon the Assyrian," ... brought about the end of the Sumerian people, at least as an identifiable ...

widow. During the final stages of an Assyrian siege which has convinced ... mighty ruler Nebuchadnezzar—the "Assyrian" ruler in the Book ...

capital until it was captured by the Assyrian Empire and its leading residents ... with them against Judah, the rise of the Assyrian Empire would eventually ...

The period of Hezekiah's reign witnessed the rise of Assyrian ... Hezekiah also entered into a pact with Egypt against the Assyrian ...

Samaritans descend from the people who inhabited what the Hebrew Bible ... were not exiled from the land during the Assyrian period, but who continued ...

worshiped by the early Amorites and by the people of Ebla and Ugarit. He was ... Anu and of Dagan. (ANET, p. 558). In an Assyrian poem, Dagan appears beside ...

a synod is the coming together of several people sharing a common element ... councils are not recognized by the Assyrian Church of the East. ...

to Ashurbanipal, the last great Neo-Assyrian king, has been cited as ... saying: "He was driven away from people and ate grass like cattle ...

The city of Sur-marrati--re-founded by the Assyrian King Sennacherib ... flooding of Baghdad downstream. Many local people were displaced by the dam ...

contact. The roots of unity between people of different cultural spheres ... Taidu and Ushshukana respectively in Assyrian sources. The whole area ...

story of Judah and Israel is, for many people, the history of God's ... example of the mighty kings of the powerful Assyrian empire. ...

Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, ... I raised you up from among the people and made you a leader over my ...

to the name. The nation's name in Assyrian was Udumi; in Greek, Ἰδουμαία ... Edom is mentioned in Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions in the form ...

meaning is derived from the name in Assyrian-Babylonian, since Zəru ... (apparently northern Israelites of mixed Assyrian lineage, or converts to ...

Jewish self-understanding ever after as a people called to establish God& ... Sumerian revival under Ur-III), kings and people in high position often had ...

Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East, Anglicans ... all their preceding sins. The belief that people baptized as infants needed ...

In the Assyrian period, Sibittibaal of Byblos became tributary to ... overlooking the Mediterranean. Most of the people of Byblos are Maronite Catholics ...

message of God's compassion for the people of Nineveh anticipates the ... of salvation not only for the chosen people of Israel but also Israel ...

Sea coast, is a city of over 200,000 people located approximately 43 ... neighborhoods of ten to fifteen thousand people each. Wide avenues between ...

The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people ... after its cities were conquered by the Assyrian Empire in the late eighth ...

on the Konkan Coast, and among tribal people in East, Central, and North ... Thoma: The Apostolic Foundation of the Assyrian Church and the Christians ...

were forced into exile as a result of the Assyrian invasion of 722 B.C.E. and ... attitudes into their faith after the Assyrian and Babylonian empires conquered ...

The nation of Ammon or the Ammonites were a people living east of ... descendants of Ben-Ammi ("Son of my People"), the son of Lot through ...

of his prophecy is directed to the Judean people—as evidenced by his frequent ... often associated with the prophets of the Assyrian age (rather than their successors ...

known as B-Group. Previously, the B-Group people were thought to have invaded ... peaceful relations with the local Nubian people, but little interaction during ...

the suffering of Israel as a result of its people's sins, while Christians ... #039;s Lord, but ultimately the God of all people. It teaches that Israel& ...

the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the various Assyrian empires. Some of the important ... the Byzantines. A number of primarily neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian ...

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doom as a punishment from God for His people's sin. As court prophet ... :He said, "Go and tell this people: :'Be ever hearing, but ...

the moral failings of the Chosen People and urges them to change ... below) – when YHWH will judge all the people of the earth. This coming ...

gives information on an attempt by the people later known as the Samaritans ... Ch. 4: People already living in the land, possibly including some ...

equal with him, but in more patriarchal Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian times ... :The whole universe, the people in unison to Enlil in one tongue [spoke]. ...

the library of the seventh-century B.C.E. Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. but self-centered king who tyrannizes his people and even disregards the gods ...

often evokes fear or loathing in many people (arachnophobia, or an abnormal ... Images of scorpion-men are present in Assyrian reliefs. ...

Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Assyrian, the Anglican Communion ... memorizing this summary of the faith, lay people without extensive theological ...

dynasty. As the ruler of the Persian people in Anshan, he conquered the ... Astyages, who had conquered all Assyrian kingdoms apart from Babylonia. ...

earlier in the Middle East, where people including the Egyptians built sophisticated irrigation systems. Roman-style aqueducts were used as early ...

story also exists in a later fragmentary Assyrian version, the first one having ... loose large quantities of fish to feed the people. Tablet II is badly damaged ...

due to a shortage of wood in Orkney, the people of Skara Brae were forced ... from the ninth/eighth century B.C.E. Assyrian palace of Nimrud. The earliest ...

churches and denominations that form the Nasrani people ... Christians together form the Nasrani people. Their tradition goes back ...

culture. As it moved through its phases, people learned to keep their calendars ... People speculated that perhaps the crescent moon-disk was Nanna's ...

vicar of Ishtar would appear before the Assyrian army, clad in battle array ... :ordering a catastrophe to destroy my people!! :No sooner have I given ...

with Ashur," which offered the Assyrian king Tudia, the use of a ... 1850 to 1600 B.C.E. During this period the people of Ebla were apparently Amorites ...

make it supposedly unnecessary for his people to go to Jerusalem to offer ... Assyrian empire. Sargon imports other Assyrian people to populate vacated ...

Theodore is still highly honored by the Assyrian Church of the East ... was a universalist, believing that all people would eventually be saved. ...

of Egypt and demanded liberation for the people of Israel (Exodus 10:3). ... #039;s warnings of doom proved true when Assyrian forces invaded the Northern ...

largely of African or African-American people, believe they are descended ... power simultaneously with the rise of the Assyrian Empire in nearby Jordan ...

it is a tribute to the resilience of the Armenian people. this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been ...

god Marduk and identical with the Assyrian deity Hadad. In Canaanite ... them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before ...

or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population forced ... majority of Jews today are still a diasporan people. Many other ethnic ...

and the surrounding area. An estimated 230,000 people died, making it the fourth deadliest earthquake in recorded history, if these figures are accurate. ...

Habacuc. Its resemblance with the Assyrian hambakûku, which is the ... had happened. And he understood that the people would return yet more swiftly ...

him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you—-may the LORD ... Marduk, the great lord, a protector of his people/worshipers, beheld with pleasure ...

Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied the country ... Sumer, and Elam. They appear as nomadic people in the Mesopotamian sources ...

siege warfare is often barbaric, treating people with no respect or honor ... of the city and begged for mercy on behalf of her people. ...

eclipses can be frightening events for people unaware of their astronomical ... A solar eclipse of June 15, 763 B.C.E., mentioned in an Assyrian text ...

group in response to the large numbers of people fleeing Eastern Europe following ... When people must leave their homeland becoming refugees, there is ...

Eastern Catholic Churches, and the Assyrian Church of the East believe ... of the Lord is not to be denied to the lay people; for... the Lord's Supper ...

inspired the religious imagination of a people toiling through the European ... were the distorted reports of the Assyrian Church's establishment ...

B.C.E., Amos was called to speak to the people of the Northern Kingdom. ... is clear and direct, and foretells the Assyrian captivity of Israel (which ...

it is estimated that 14,000 to 18,000 people would be the full number ... the Israelites in the midst of a foreign people. The prophetic emphasis on ...

from the ninth and eighth-century B.C.E. Assyrian palace of Nimrud. The earliest ... scholars, and other experts, for many people there is little value in ...

The Assyrian Tree of Life was represented by a series of nodes and ... The leaves of the tree are coins and people. At the apex is a bird with ...

The people of Amman are multi-cultural, multi-denominational, well ... the capital of the Ammonites, a Semitic people spoken of in the Bible. ...

to represent the Karaites as an ancient people dwelling in Crimea since ... or Talmudic law. Maimonides wrote that people who deny the Godly source ...

goddess of fertility and agriculture. People believed they would get a ... at least the Neolithic Age. The Sumerian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Minoan, Greek ...

Though the Babylonian/Assyrian god Dumuzi was known by a variety of ... :The house which gives the breath of life to the people. ...

compiled from earlier sources which viewed the people of the northern kingdom as sharers with them in the covenant of God with Jacob and Moses. Chronicles ...

made available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book, namely, Jews ... This status applied to millions of people living from the Atlantic ...

The Ancient Indian Kama Sutra refers to people of a "third sex ... would call male-to-female transgender people and effeminate homosexuals ...

and played an important role in the people’s fight against spiritual ... place on May 26, 451, when the Armenian people rose against their conquerors ...

Museum of Art works to enhance people's respect, friendship ... time and cultures in order to connect all people to creativity, knowledge ...

of the Umayyads, built on the site of an Assyrian sanctuary. ... removed from that country also, with his people, and went into the land then ...

area population of seven million people. It is the largest city in ... as Lebanon. The Akkadians were a Semitic people, who had migrated from the ...

from outlying areas. The Sapalli and Aryan people lived in villages along the ... Bukhara remained the capital of the Bukharan People's Soviet ...

for the use of a limited number of people, or even a single person ... Today people generally view the library as a free book lending institution ...

Fortunately, most people who experience traumatic events do not develop ... sources from 1300 to 600 B.C.E. These Assyrian soldiers would undergo a ...

of Palmyra took leadership and led her people against Roman troops in 297 C.E. ... 10, 2000, after 30 years in office. The People's Council amended the ...

Scholars, however, presume that few people could read in that era, as ... celebrates the accomplishments of the Assyrian Church of the East in China ...

With a population of nearly 3 million people, the city is the third largest ... People lived in the area at least 10,000 years ago. During the mid ...

of James (St. Jude) and Thomas as separate people. Mainstream Christian churches ... within the various Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian traditions. ...

such as King Sihon of Heshbon, whose people were utterly destroyed during ... #039;s immediate family—who encourages people to worship other gods than ...

#039;s population, from as low as 938,940 people to 1,303,129 people. Other ... Bronze Age, before 2000 B.C.E. Semitic people known as the Amorites became ...

Lisa, Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, and Alexandros of Antioch ... Géricault (1819); Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix (1830 ...

of Three Fires. Other First Nations people in Michigan, in the south ... of the inhabitants were either Aboriginal people or French Canadians. Because ...

when China was essentially Buddhist. People belonging to the Assyrian ... ad majorem Dei Gloriam. Unfortunately some people even became jealous of their ...

the controversy that he aroused forced people to clarify the doctrine of ... Eastern Orthodox Churches, along with the Assyrian Church of the East, accept ...

the Persian army and overtaxed the people. The Byzantine emperor Heraclius ... an appendage of wealth in the East since Assyrian days. The two dozen Sasanian ...

the invasion of Alexander the Great. Assyrian inscriptions relegate him ... have left a deep imprint on the Tajik people's mind. The habit has ...

control suggest that she thought white people were genetically superior ... However, while the achievements of some people are easy to evaluate as on ...

Temple (2 Chron. 4:9). Here the common people assembled to worship God. ... Scholars debate how much all of this affected the masses of people ...

step toward the unification of all people as one human family, able ... The postal system allows people to send letters or packages nationally ...

when they were published. While some people thought Nostradamus was a ... of Egypt"), a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a fourth ...

"Palestinian people," "Palestinians," or "Palestinian ... the "homeland of Arab Palestinian people" is Palestine, an "indivisible ...

he provided examples of tribes where people followed different political ... group," which defines a group of people of common ancestry and language ...

impact on the territory and its people being invaded. Some of these ... involves the movement of large numbers of people into an enemy land, with ...

literature on angels, ordinary people frequently report experiences ... God sent an angel to protect the Hebrew people after their exodus from Egypt ...

David who will be anointed as the Jewish people's new leader. ... Israelites taken into captivity in the Assyrian Empire: ...

and lack of respect for the dignity of all people. On the other hand, historically ... those found guilty of overtaxing the people or of mistreating the peasants ...

of West Asia and Africa. Lothal's people had been responsible for ... name of the city of Mohenjodaro in Sindhi. People in villages neighboring to ...

and protecting sheep and cattle, guarding people and property, rescuing people ... as guard dogs trained to instill fear in people and as sports dogs taught ...

even involving Oriental Orthodoxy and the Assyrian Church of the East, seeks ... substitute for the human family for people, like monks and nuns, that ...

property and shared values. More and more people became aware of belonging ... called themselves "the black-headed people" (sag-gi-ga) and their ...

The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions ... The 99 Beautiful Names for God for All the People of the Book (Pasadena, CA: ...

used to describe the nation of Iran, its people, or its ancient empire. The ... the Council of Ephesus. As a result, the Assyrian Church of the East was formed. ...

and Seele, 56. Beyond the Euphrates, the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hittite ... not guided by the popular sentiment of the people as much as they were by the ...

or, as some historians claim, averted) an Assyrian siege in 701 B.C.E., unlike ... the religious consciousness of the Jewish people. Jews have always identified ...

altar is so positioned that it makes the people's participation difficult ... The original design for the butsudan began in India, where people ...

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... Aztec civilization sustained millions of people and developed from ...

The Philistines, a sea-faring people possibly from Crete, invaded ... Under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and ...

Pakistan's population or 25.6 million people. In Afghanistan, they make ... exist about the origins of the Pashtun people, some modern and others archaic ...

From Mount Nebo in western Jordan, many people believe that Moses saw the ... descended from him. The Edomite people were a Semitic-speaking tribal ...

The number of Christians in the People's Republic of China has ... mentions, in “Adversus Gentes,” a people known as the "Seres ...

43|30|E|type:event|display=inline). All 26 people on board the two Black Hawks ... will make them available to the American people and to the people of Britain ...

Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, Assyrian Church of the East, and ... speaking Jews to speak of Israel, the people of God,François Louvel, ...

"a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time," and decided ... iş erini" (cedar-beams), or the Assyrian "giparu" (reed). ...

repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible as (Caphtor) ... 1858, 1889, 1895 and 1897 by the Cretan people, who wanted to join Greece ...

the First and Second Temples of the Jewish People). It is also considered a ... identity, and who can motivate their people to see the humanity of their ...

lions' interaction with livestock and people usually results in the elimination ... While lions do not usually hunt people, some (usually males) seem ...