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- Esther (5002 bytes)
7: ...ook of Esther even though he is never mentioned explicitly.
9: The [[Targum]] provides another Midrashic explanation claiming that she was as beautiful as the ...
14: ... According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-two years after the Return.
16: ...[[God]] to avert the destruction of the Jewish people, and to afford them protection and forward their...
21: ...ordecai" are simply Hebrew forms of "Ishtar" and "Marduk". The custom of preparing hamantaschen is reminis... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
1: ...eral terraced stories and were topped with a [[temple]] fit for any [[god]].
3: [[Image:White_ziggurat.jpg|frame|center|White Temple at Uruk (Sumer)]]
5: ...White Temple is set. Its purpose is to get the temple closer to the [[heaven]]s, and provide access fr...
7: ...arduk_ziggurat.jpg|frame|center|Reconstruction of Marduk Ziggurat, Babylon]]
9: ...t there were three staircases leading to the [[temple]], two of which (side flanked) were thought to h... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
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7: ...sopotamia. The armies of Babylonia were well-disciplined, and they conquered the city-states of [[Isin...
15: ...nidus where he recounts his restoration of the temple of the Moon-god at Harran; as well as by a procl...
17: ...h guards were placed at the gates of the great temple of Bel, where the services continued without int...
19: ...rk of excavating the foundation records of the temples and determining the dates of their builders. - Babylon (9716 bytes)
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10: ...belled against the Assyrian rule under [[Mushezib-Marduk]] and again under [[Shamash-shum-ukin]] but was b...
16: ...ction of the capital. In [[689 BC]] its walls, temples and palaces were razed to the ground and the ru...
18: ...e Assyrian empire the Babylonians saw another example of divine vengeance.
27: ... the ancient world. Nebuchadnezzar ordered the complete reconstruction of the imperial grounds, includ... - Tower of Babel (13111 bytes)
2: ... different parts of Earth. The story is used to explain the existence of many different languages and ...
8: ...of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this...
11: ... were everywhere prominent. Mindful that the accomplishment of this project might embolden them to sti...
19: ...ds the sky can be found in religious art (see example above).
23: ...ide. There is no statue of any kind set up in the place, nor is the chamber occupied of nights by any ... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
1: ...ad been found in a wicker basket, a child of a temple prostitute and an unknown father. Sargon is the ...
3: ...dach-baladan|Marduk-apla-iddin]]. He freed all temples, as well as the inhabitants of the towns of [[A...
4: ...s thus trying to gain support in Assyria, Marduk-apla-iddin conquered Babylon with the help of the new...
10: ...madic steppe tribe. One Urartian army had been completely annihilated, and the General Qaqqadanu taken...
16: ...rth to [[Van]] without meeting resistance, the people having retreated to their castles or fled into t... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
1: :''For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring areas, see [[A...
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15: ...xtensive contact with cities in the [[Anatolia]]n plateau. The Assyrians established "merchant colonie...
21: ... reigns of the Babylonian kings Melishipak II and Marduk-apal-iddin I, another weak period for Assyria.
29: ...on, deporting populations in the north to far off places. Apart from pushing the boundary with Babylo...
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