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Alex Greene December 5th, 2015 B2 The Phoenicians On my honor as a Brentwood Academy student, I have neither given nor received help on this paper. I pledge that the work on this paper unless otherwise cited, are mine and mine alone. The Phoenicians The Phoenicians were the jack of all trades of ancient times. They were strong in all suits of life. They possessed great abilities, invented and accepted new ideas, and were powerful politically. The Phoenicians…

supplied by ethnography and feminist anthropology along with textual and archeological materials. Moreover, Elisabeth Tetlow and other scholars’ research revealed that women enjoy almost equal rights as men in the oldest civilizations of Sumer, Old Assyria, and Old Babylonia. Contrary to modern scholarship, many scholars conclude women’s high status in the OT; Richard Davidson cogently argued, with extraordinary depth and extensive bibliography, that the rapid decline of women’s status came…

from these civilizations and empires have contributed to Western Civilization. Mesopotamian civilization developed between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and evolved to three definite societies: Sumer (2000s B.C), Babylonia (1000s B.C.), and Assyria (after 700s B.C.). The first known cities were founded by the Sumerians using architecture of mud and brick. The location of the cities was extremely important due to the availability of water. The need for water in agriculture caused the…

In Dante’s The Divine Comedy, he describes the very center of Hell as an icy, frozen place. This is a direct contrast to what people normally believe Hell to be like, as expressed in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in which it is rather described as a place full of fire, a literal furnace. Our minds are immediately drawn to a fiery Hell, as that is what is traditionally pictured in modern-day pop culture and the like. However, I believe Dante was right in his description, that ice is a metaphor…

lying and renouncing Jesus. If we return to the example of Amos, we can also see that he had an honesty response. After Amaziah tells Amos to leave, Amos says that he was not a “professional” prophet and that Israel was going to be taken captive by Assyria (Amos 7:14-17). Despite Amaziah’s threats and harsh words, Amos continued to respond with…

of the royal women in Amarna, Egypt. I also saw letters in Cuneiform which I learned in one of my classes that it was one of the earliest forms of writing. These letters, written in two dialects of the Akkadian language, were sent by the rulers of Assyria and Tyre to the King of Egypt. One of the most popular for me was the Temple of Dendur, a walk-in temple which is located in the Ancient Egyptian section of the…

cultures: Hammu, which means “family” in Amorite, combined with rapi, meaning “great” in Akkadian, the language in Babylon. In the 30th year of Hammurabi rule he began to expand his kingdom up and down the Euphrates, overthrowing Larsa, Eshunna, Assyria and Mari until all of Mesopotamia was under his control. By 1750 B.C. Hammurabi controlled all of Babylon because of his strong army. Before…

In 701 BC the town of Judah fell to the Assyrians as Micah had predicted. Before that, between 734-727 BC, Assyria conduced campaigns against Israel. Most biblical scholars believe that only chapters 1-3 were written in the 8th century BC and that the remaining chapters were written in the early 5th century BC. This is due to the fact that chapters 4-7 contain…

In the beginning was the genesis of creation, where had God moved by his spirit to create the Heavens, Earth, and mankind for a companionship with one of his own image. God wanted a relationship based on freewill for the product of true love. But the free will of mankind resulted in the fall from the grace of God. Because of God’s love, we can see the movement of God throughout history to reconcile the relationship between God and mankind back into right standing. The movement shows a trajectory…

religious tribulation. However, this pre-exilic prophet’s message stressed great disdain for the Israelites ritualistic practices that distanced themselves from the God of Israel (De Andrado, 2016) as well as warning the nation that their enemy was Assyria (Arnold & Beyer). The Israelites turned away from God, rather choosing idolatry and the worship of Baal. Metaphors abound in Hosea, and in particular, this passage depicts Israel as a ‘child’ and ‘son’ in verse one. Ephraim replaces Israel in…