This article focuses on the ancient civilization of Assyria. More than 4,000 years ago, on the northern reaches of the Tigris, River, there arose a group of people we know today as Assyrians. The Assyrians are best known for their deeds during th...
In ancient times, the Assyrian civilization was often centered at the city of Assur (also called Ashur), named after the supreme god of Assyria and the ruins of the city are located in what is now northern Iraq. The territory the Assyrians controlled was vast, stretching from southern Iraq...
Who Are the People of God? by Kraig and Anne Elliott Our English word “church” is used for the concept that people from every tribe and nation (ie. Gentiles) have been “called out” of darkness by faith in Jesus Christ and “made fellow citizens with God’s people” (Israel). In...
The Bible references many different peoples who interacted with the Israelites in the ancient world. One of the most politically important groups was the Assyrians, who played a key role in the history of Israel. Ancient Assyria was a powerful empire that kept written records of its own, and ...
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger and the staff in whose hand is My indignation.6 I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath I will give him a command,to seize the plunder, to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the ...
Nevertheless, this city is not mentioned anywhere else in the Bible, and it seems more likely that this term is parallel to “the land of Shinʿar” in the preceding verse, and refers to the land of Assyria in general. Nineveh was the last, and best-known, capital of Assyria, from ...
“Today’s white Evangelicals are more concerned with checking all of the right boxes without considering that true repentance means more than just saying, ‘We’re sorry.’ It means being willing to walk through the valley of transformation so that both races arrive at true reconciliation, even...
And it’s not just that the claim for any particular martyrdom story is flimsy; it’s thatwe can be certainthat many of them are false because they contradict each other. Let’s pause for a moment to savor this lesson. “Tradition holds that” or “The Church tells us that” is never...
The Bible depicts Nebuchadrezzar II and his city as doomed, but to his own people, he restored Babylon to glory.
Enki is Jesus and for some Jungians, Enki becomes an archetype of the Messiah. Whatever the moniker, Enki and the other Anunnunaki were PEOPLE, not all-knowing, all-good, all-powerful; none of them are what the Anunnaki call “the Creator-of-All,” Native Americans call “Great Spirit...