In other rooms of the palace the scenes were mostly of religious or ceremonial topics." (H.W.F. Saggs, The Might That Was Assyria, p. 249) "Amongst all the aspects of ancient Mesopotamian life, there ...

(Image credit: Hulton Archive/Getty) Both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Assyrian texts describe how the Assyrian king Sennacherib (reign ca. 704-681 B.C.) laid siege to Jerusalem in 701 B.C.

In this article I compared Assyrian expansion as presented in the Bible with that presented in the Assyrian sources. Then I pointed out the problems of the historical events presented in the Bible.

(AINA) -- The story is familiar to readers of the Bible. God instructs Jonah to go preach to the people of Nineveh, capital of Assyria. Jonah refuses and boards a ship bound for Tarshish. But it is ...

Frahm’s teaching includes courses on Mesopotamia and Assyria, the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern setting, myth and ritual in the ancient Near East, and more specialized classes focused on reading ...