The Bible and archaeology

[coony77]

I got these 2 videos and just wanted to share them with you 😉 they might be helpful in the ministry...

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by coony77

[hatcheckgirl]

An interesting article on the Assyrian empire and the practice of deportation in the Levant. Eventually they get to the Bible, but an interesting read.

 

https://www.asor.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Valk-February-2021-ANEToday.pdf
 

If deportation from the Levant was of minor consequence to the Assyrian labor supply, why did the Assyrian state nevertheless deport so many of its people? In the Assyrian sources, every instance of deportation is presented as a response to rebellion, a punishment for opposing the divinely ordained Assyrian order. It is tempting to dismiss this as mere propaganda, but there is more here than rhetorical bluster. Recorded deportations correlate with known outbreaks of resistance against Assyrian hegemony. The Hebrew Bible concedes the point: the compilers of the Book of Kings admit the guilt of the kings of Israel and Judah, whose failure to acquiesce to Assyrian overlordship brought about the deportation of many of the people of their kingdoms—leading, in the case of Israel, to the loss of the ten tribes that some continue to look for today.

[hatcheckgirl]

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2021/10/assyrian-empire-canal-networks

 

An interesting article on how irrigation canals were used in ancient Assyria.