Assyria was a major Mesopotamian East Semitic kingdom, and empire, of the Ancient Near East, existing as an independent state for a period of approximately nineteen centuries from c. 2500 BC to 605 BC, spanning the Early Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age. For a further thirteen centuries, from the end of the 7th century BC to the mid-7th century AD, it survived as a geo-political entity, for the most part ruled by foreign powers, although a number of small Neo-Assyrian states such as Assur, Adiabene, ..
Babylon is set in South London at the start of the '80s a time when reggae music was at its peak and racism was rife and follows Blue the lead rapper for Ital Lion Sound in the run-up to a Sound System competition with a rival crew led by Jah Shaka. Ov..
PREFACE: IT IS the purpose of the present volume to show that intelligent Christians have a reasonable ground, for concluding that the text of the Old Testament which we have is substantially correct, and that, In its true and obvious meaning, it has a ri..
Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The premise is that, while controlling for diffe..
The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is the most
comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal source for medieval Judaism, and for som..
370 C.E.) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. 650 C.E.). Hayes analyzes selected divergences
between parallel passages of the two Talmuds. Proceeding on a case-by-case basis, she considers whether external influences (cultural or regional difference..
Neo-Babylonian Trial Records Writings from the Ancient World Binding: Paperback Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature Publish Date: 2014/03/14 Language: ENGLISH Pages: 272 Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 Weight: 0.85 ISBN-13: 9781589839434
