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Episode 23 – Captives of Babylon
“So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him. Then the king o…
13 years, 5 months ago
Episode 22 – The Fifth Generation
“But when earth had covered this generation also, Zeus the son of Cronos made yet another, the fourth, upon the fruitful earth, which was nobler and …
13 years, 6 months ago
Episode 21 – For the Sake of Distant Days
“Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek comforters for thee?” – Nahum 3:7
Ashurbanipal spent the end of his reign establish…
13 years, 6 months ago
Episode 20 – The House of Succession
In the mid-seventh century BC, Nubia and Assyria struggled for control over Egypt before the kingdom regained independence under the pharaoh Psamtik …
13 years, 7 months ago
Episode 19 – The Destruction of Sennacherib
“The city and its houses, from its foundations to its walls, I destroyed, I devastated, I burned with fire. The wall and outer wall, temple-tower of…
13 years, 7 months ago
Episode 18 – The Three Pillars
In the west, Phoenician mastery of the Mediterranean was challenged by widespread Greek colonization. Rome’s first kings established the boundaries …
13 years, 8 months ago
Episode 17 – The Fall of Israel
“Then the King of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the…
13 years, 9 months ago
Episode 16 – The Assyrian
“And Pul, the King of Assyria, came against the land.” – II Kings, 15:19
In 745 BC, Tiglath-pileser III reformed the administrative and military stru…
13 years, 9 months ago
Episode 15 – Holding Action
During the first half of the eighth century BC, Egypt, Babylonia and Assyria all struggled against the forces of entropy and decline. In the absence…
13 years, 10 months ago
Episode 14 – In the Midst of the Seas
“I received the tribute of the kings of the seacoast – namely, the lands of the peoples of Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Mahallatu, Maizu, Kaizu, Amurru and t…
13 years, 11 months ago