City of God: Jerusalem and the Holy Land in From Babylon to Cinecittà: Imaging Ancient Cities in Film, Marta García Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth, scar Lapea Marchena (eds.), Routledge, 2015, pp. 35-47Leonardo Gregoratti
He also freed the Jewish slaves in Babylon to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple. Cyrus the Great is highly respected in all Jewish texts. After Cyrus conquered Babylon, a special relationship developed between Cyrus and the Jews, to the extent that the Jews called him “Messiah”, ...
539 BC or the slightly later Macedonian expansion (330s BC) opened the long-distance exchange networks that allowed the chicken to cross the world8. Debate of early chicken spread focuses on the reliability of reports of chicken bones in pre-Hellenistic contexts. For example, there have been m...
although even this was similar to that of their southern neighbors in Babylonia. Religion was equally a cohesive force. Assyria was literally “the land of Ashur,” in reference to their principal god. The king—human representation of the god Assur—gave a final perspective of unity. ...
XI. ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA–THE GREAT SEMITIC MELTING-POT XII. THE STORY OF MOSESXIII. JERUSALEM–THE CITY OF THE LAW XIV. DAMASCUS–THE CITY OF TRADEXV. THE PHOENICIANS WHO SAILED BEYOND THE HORIZON XVI. THE ALPHABET FOLLOWS THE TRADEXVII. THE END OF THE ANCIENT WORLD PREHISTORIC MAN It ...
But when the satrap of Babylonia realized this situation and decided to put a stop to them before they grew stronger and before greater troubles arose, he got together as great an army as he could consisting of Parthians and Babylonians and marched a...
to the Pool of Siloam inside the city, but hesuccumbedto the might ofSennacheribofAssyria, who in 701 forced payment of a heavy tribute. In 612 Assyria yielded its primacy toBabylon. Eight years later Jerusalem was despoiled, and its king was deported to Babylon. In 587/586bcethe city ...
5 on each side of the entrance to the inner sanctuary. TheSecond Temple, built after the Jews returned from exile in Babylon, contained one menorah that was seized in 169bcebyAntiochus IV Epiphaneswhen hedesecratedthe Temple.Judas Maccabeusordered construction of a new seven-branched candelabra, ...
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to Babylonia and reestablished his rule there; it may have been in 308, but by 305bcehe had assumed the title of king. With the defeat and death of Antigonus at theBattle of Ipsus in 301, Seleucus became the ruler of a large empire stretching from modernAfghanistanto theMediterranean Sea...