Nineveh

In January of 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new campaign strategy on the war against terror. The surge was a way forward to a more unified, democratic federation that can sustain, govern, and defend itself in future generations. His plan involved the deployment of 28,000 additional U.S. troops to the Anbar Province and Baghdad Area of Influence (AOI). The AOI strategy was based on six essential elements that derived from a proposal meeting with senior Iraqi officials; let…

Testament Bible such as Creation, Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, the Great Flood and the Tower of Babel. The Enuma Elish, a Babylonian creation myth written between 1800 to 1600BC and was recovered from the ruins of the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh in 1849AD by Austen Henry Layard. Written on seven clay tablets in Sumerian-Akkadian cuneiform script with a total of about 1000 lines. The Enuma Elish is also known as "The Seven Tablets of Creation" that parallels the seven days of creation…

The book of Jonah, just like the other Minor Prophets, is a short story – only 4 chapters with 48 vesicles – which, between other characteristics, its distinguishes by having the prophet as the main character, while the other prophets are only collections of oracles. Another difference with the other minor prophet books, is that the book of Jonah is a narrative story about the mission ordered to Jonah, and, even in other books of the Bible, we find parallel writings of this particular style,…

preserve in a total of 12 tablets. The tablets were written in “Cuneiform” script-wedge-shape characters incised in clay or stone (The Norton Anthology 34). These tablets were lost and found in the early 1800s by a group of archeologists in the city of Nineveh amidst the ruins of the great royal library of king…

Mack and Leann 's Guide to Short-Term Missions was a excellent book. As a husband and wife team Mack and Leann Stiles have directed short-term missions for 14 years. Although the book was wonderful it consisted largely of personal stories from Mack and Leann 's many missions trips. These stories were wonderful and gave great insight into the daily life and logistics of being a missionary. While I did find these stories to be funny, insightful, and educating they are not my stories and I feel I…

the people of his time. He was a legendary builder and warrior. Perhaps his fame as a great warrior is portrayed in the Epic of Gilgamesh by showing him battling with and defeating gods. The most complete version of this epic poem was found in Nineveh. The original version of this epic poem was written in Akkadian, which is the language of the Babylonians. The epic was originally written on eleven clay tablets with an incomplete appendix on a twelfth tablet. The original tablets do…

When we arrive to Exodus 34, we come across a narrative that is already in progress. Prior to the Exodus, we have already been introduced to the concept of divine covenant. In Genesis 12, the Lord promised Abram that He would make him a great nation, make his name great and bless others after him because of him. It is this contextual backdrop that leads to the Israelites becoming God’s chosen people. For early on in the narrative, we are made aware of the fact that God keeps His word –…

Additional texts from Mesopotamia that wrestle with the problem of suffering include “Man and His God,” a text from the second millennium BC Sumer, and “I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom,” copies of texts discovered in 7 th century BC Nineveh but likely representing second millennium BC as well.] We have our own cultural icons, people who have triumphed over exceedingly difficult tragedies and whose stories become part of our sub-culture’s language. If we are “journaling types,” we have…

It would be convenient if I could mesh together the Bible and the Koran. It would be convenient if I could say that the God of the Bible is the same God of the Koran. There would be a lot less tension on both sides for some. I simply cannot say that to be true. Through my research on both sides I am convinced that the God of the Bible is not the same God of the Koran. People have worshipped gods since human existence began, but to say that Allah is the same God as Yahweh Elohim of the Bible is…

chiefs raided Yezidi villages and attempted to convert the Yezidi tribes of Jabal Sinjar. For instance, Austin Layard, a British Archeologist, during his adventures across Kurdistan in the 1848 recounts in his book Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon visiting a Kurdish village run by Shaykh Kassim, who was infamous for his “hatred of Yezidis...murdering those who came within his reach” (39). In addition, the Sunni Ottoman Empire often appointed Sunni Kurds to enforce Ottoman…