#Assyria

Dr Owen Rees

reeshistory

Some very #BadAncient here from @guardian @guardianart: 'Egypt and Greece were civilisations. Assyria was not.'Let's take a brief look at this then https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/mar/27/british-m

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

Dear Twitter, I have spent a lot of time in the past two years working on this thing called my 'dissertation.'What is Christopher doing, you may wonder? In this thread

frederikthegr8

frederikthegr8

#Deznat The ignorance of Laman and Lemuel: Jerusalem had been besieged by Babylon for 3 months and eventually captured. Just years before, the land had been overrun by Egyptians helping

THE BLACK HEMINGWAY

J_Chiemeke

Divine inspiration aside, the Old Testament is good Prose.Nuanced storytelling, good dialogue, decent character development, good back stories, nice sentence construction.There is enough material in 1 & 2 Samuel, as

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

So yesterday I introduced all of you to my dissertation research.I ended on a cliffhanger with a promise to continue today, so here we go!(Here's yesterday's thread: https://twitter.com/cwjones89/status/1275412504219435008?s=20) To

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godsaph

mfw every civilization near my country believed females were dirty, dictated what we wore, how we lived and what we got to do and enslaved feminine/gay males as “the third

frederikthegr8

frederikthegr8

The Lord was instilling a dependence on God.#DeznatJaredites didn't seem to have any formal commandments from God other than to worship Him and Him alone. They were fleeing Idolatry and

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

Excited (and nervous) to give a Zoom lecture today to a 5th-grade class about astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia and its legacy! It’s impossible to talk about any aspect of scholarship

Anak Kolong™|

AnakKolong_

"tuhan" SUMBER KEGADUHAN & PERTENGKARAN | - sebuah utas - 1. "tuhan" "PAKAI" ayat²NYA & menciptakan sejuta "ulama" dgn SEJUTA TAFSIRnya hingga ada "ulama" bertengkar hanya karena KA

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

Did you know that Assyrian queens used a scorpion to symbolize their office?A thread. In ancient Mesopotamia seals were used to leave impressions on clay. They could be applied to

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

As #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek draws to a close, here is a short thread to remind us that mental health issues are ancient, and that if you suffer from them, you are not

James Bejon

JamesBejon

A dove,a plant,a voyage at sea,a worm,and a fish referred to both as a ‘dag’ (דג) and a ‘dagah’ (דגה)?What do these things have in common?For some suggestions, please join

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

Brilliant new resource for the field that might also be fun to peruse.These administrative records from Neo-Assyrian palaces, forts, private archives, and elsewhere paint a detailed picture of what it

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

What survives of the past is things, so it's easy to forget the people behind them whose lives, loves, worries, and wants might not have been so different from ours.Thread

Paul Cooper

PaulMMCooper

A thread on the maps and cartography of ancient Mesopotamia: how the people of Babylon & Assyria made maps, what they used them for, and how they imagined the shape

Jared Stacy

jaredstacy

To any who say CN is isolated & not widely influential, we need to look at the book of Kings. The Scriptures are not silent on the dangers of civil

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