By the Waters of Babylon

The name “Zechariah” means “the Lord (Jehovah) remembers.” In the Old Testament this name is used over twenty-nine times. Zechariah was a postexilic prophet during the restoration from Babylon. He was born in Babylon from a priestly family that returned to Jerusalem with some 50,000 other exiles. Like Jeremiah and Ezekiel he was both prophet and priest. Jewish tradition credits him with being one of the Great Synagogue, a body which is thought to have gathered and preserved the sacred writings…

Dystopian Survival Guide Being that forgotten kid that is destined to fail is a terrible feeling. While walking through hallways of your ignorant and insensitive peers, you feel this sentiment. Sadly, though, your mom is not going to be there give you your blankie and sing you lullabies. You have to push through. This hell house with a hierarchy of teachers at the top and students at the bottom is absolutely absurd. Teachers pile endless amounts of work and feed mountains of information into…

Subordination by Divine Hegemony In early historic times, the prevalent themes of interconnection and divergence synonymously thrived in the territorial kingdoms of Mesopotamia and Egypt. In the great river basins, the cultural aspects of life, most notably the behavioral patterns constructed through religion, aided the establishment of interrelations between the gods and humans. Successively, the predetermined roles of both the divine and mortals further developed the complex societies that…

Indentured servitude Verses slavery What is the difference and similarities of Slavery verses an Indentured servant? How slavery and Indentured servitude began in the Colonization by the British of The United States of America originated. Who and how the individuals were affected by being a slave verses an indentured servant and the history of both of their originated origins. I’m writing this to be a factual paper, a learning experience for myself and others and the mere fact I love…

Christian Gonzalez Foundations of Civilization Mr. Livingston 14 September 2016 Contributions of Sumerians While the Sumerians were a civilization that existed around 3000 B.C., they made important discoveries towards civilization, technology, intellect, and politics. First of all, the invention of writing is credited to the Sumerians around 3200 B.C. Their writing began as pictograms that were pressed into soft clay tablets for record keeping purposes at first, and that form evolved of…

The Hammurabi code The Code of Hammurabi is a compilation of laws and edicts sponsored by Hammurabi, king of Babylon, which forms the first known code of History. The Hammurabi Code is one of the oldest and best-preserved sets of laws in existence. Its norms, based on the application of the Law of the Talion, as a whole, are considered as the prelude to some modern legal concepts. The laws of the Code of Hammurabi were of divine origin and immutable. They were fundamental rules, written to…

In this book, author Gwendolyn Leick, an anthropologist and Assyriologist, describes the ancient history of Mesopotamia by way of ten cities: Eridu, Uruk, Shuruppak, Akkad, Ur, Nippur, Sippar, Ashur, Nineveh, and Babylon. The cities are given separate chapters which are arranged roughly chronologically over an immense time span, from the beginnings of Eridu in the fifth millennium BCE to the end of Babylonian culture in the first centuries of the Common Era. The chapter are further divided by…

C.E. more than 300 years before Jesus of Nazareth. Alexander grew up to do great and amazing things, and Alexander received the title “Great”. But sadly all life has to come to a stop. Alexander was hurt from battle wounds, and retreated back to Babylon, but he died there in June of 323 B.C.E. Although Alexander the Great was not great because he lacked concern for others, but Alexander was great because he had loads of remarkable achievements,…

they follow and guard the true Hebrew religion of the ancient Israelites prior to their Babylonian Exile. They believed the true Hebrew religion was preserved by the Israelites who were able to remain in their land during the exile while those in Babylon altered the Torah. Samaritans claim descent from the Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh - the two sons of Joseph - as well as from the priestly tribe of Levi. Recent DNA testing confirms their Hebrew ancestry. The main division between…

The average income of veterinarians in private practice was $57,500 in 1995. The starting salary of a veterinarian is somewhere around $23,000 per year nowadays. But veterinarians in more established careers make around $40,000-$60,000. But those who work for the federal government (meat inspectors) are considered to make less. Veterinarians also require much more education to be what they are. There are 27 colleges in 26 states that meet veterinary medicine accreditation standards. The…