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17 Cards in this Set
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Babylonian Epic Story
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Enuma Elish
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Sumerian scribe hoped to support belief that Sumerian kings always ruled, people lived longer
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Sumerian Kings list
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Flood according to Babylonian account, difference is Biblical Monotheism
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Gilgamesh Epic
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15,000 Clay tablets, record Biblical parallels, earliest mention of Israel
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Ebla Tablets
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Clay tablets that are primary source for cultural and social life in Northern Mesopotamia
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Nuzi Tablets
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The laws that have much similarity to Mosaic law, on an 8 foot stone
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Hammurabi Code
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Pharoah of Egypt, mentions Israel as one of the countries he attacked
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Merneptah Stele
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twelve month lunar calandar, gave example of Hebrew text during time of Solomon
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Gezer Calendar
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list of prime ministers, or limmu, clarifies the chronology of the kingsq
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Eponym List
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Discovered in a building just west of the Omri-Ahab palace, probably during the reign of Jeroboam II
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Samaria Ostraca
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Pictures Jehu kissing the ground in submission before Assyrian Monarch
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Black Obelisk Stele
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Information about Omri, enjoyed great political prestige
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Moabite Stone
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Talks about Sargon the II of Assyria, Shalmaneser V
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Nimrud Prism
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Grave stone was found, king of Judah
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Uzziah' grave stone
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Copper ring with a ram and a man on it, likely belonged to an official of this king
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Seal of Jotham
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An inscription found near the exit at the tunnel carved out by Hezekiah
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Siloam Inscription
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Hezekiah was shut up like a bird in this
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Taylor Prism
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