Lost treasures of the Bible : understanding the Bible through archaeological artifacts in world museums PDF
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Clyde E. Fant & Mitchell G. Reddish Illustrations X Preface and Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations xx List of Selected Rulers xxii Maps xxvi Creation and Flood Stories Enuma Elish, the Epic of Creation 3 Sumerian Creation Myths 7 The Epic of Atrahasis 12 The Epic of Gilgamesh i6 Sumerian King List 22 Israel's Ancestral, Exodus, and Settlement Periods Ram Caught in a Thicket 29 The Rosetta Stone 33 Amarna Tablets 37 Akhenaten: Stela and Panel, Adoration of the Aten 43 The Birth Legend of Sargon 47 The Mummy of Ramesses II 50 Mud Brick of Ramesses II 53 The Treaty of Kadesh 55 The Law Code of Hammurabi 6o Middle Assyrian Laws, Tablet A 66 Merneptah Stela (or, Israel Stela) 72 Calf Statuette and Model Shrine 74 Philistine Cult Stand with Musicians 78 Stela of Baal of the Lightning 81 Cylinder Seal of El and Baal 84 Myths of the Baal Cycle 88 The Period of the Monarchy Gezer Calendar 95 Mesha Stela (Moabite Stone) 97 Tel Dan Inscription 103 Ivory Plaque Mentioning Hazael 106 Samaria Ivories log Nimrud Ivories 112 The Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser III 116 The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III 119 Shema Seal of Megiddo 124 Reliefs from the Central Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud 126 Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III 131 Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad 133 The Epitaph of Uzziah 140 Seal of Shebnayau, Servant of Uzziah 142 Hezekiah's Tunnel Inscription 144 Horned Altar of Beer-Sheba 148 Sanctuary of Arad 151 Shebna Inscription from Silwan 154 The Taylor Prism 158 Bull Inscription of Sennacherib: The Tribute of Hezekiah 164 Scenes from Sennacherib's Southwest Palace at Nineveh 168 Siege of Lachish 173 Stela of Esarhaddon 177 Stela of Ashurbanipal 182 Wall Reliefs from Ashurbanipal's Palaces at Nineveh 185 Tablet Naming Gyges of Lydia 190 Cylinder of Nabopolassar 192 Babylonian Chronicle, 616-609 B.C.E. - The Fall of Nineveh 195 Ishtar Gate and Processional Way of Babylon 199 Arad Ostracon Mentioning "House of Yahweh" 205 Babylonian Chronicle, 605-595 B.C.E. - The Capture of Jerusalem 208 Lachish Letters 212 Babylonian Rations: The Judean Royal House as Prisoners 217 The Period of the Babylonian Exile Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur 223 The Nabonidus Chronicle 228 Nabonidus Cylinder Mentioning Belshazzar 232 The Legend of Aqhat 235 Poetry and Wisdom Literature Sumerian Proverbs Tablet 241 Sumerian Love Poem 247 The Great Hymn to Osiris 251 Dialogue between a Man and His God 256 Ludlul Bel Nemeqi, "The Babylonian Job" 259 The Persian Period The Cyrus Cylinder 267 Frieze of Archers 271 Column Capital from Persepolis 275 Silver Bowl of Artaxerxes I 280 Column Base with Inscription of Artaxerxes II 283 The Hellenistic Period Statue and Head of Alexander the Great 289 Head and Coin of Antiochus IV 293 The Roman Period Equestrian Statue of Augustus 299 Bust and Silver Denarius of Tiberius 302 The Galilee Boat 308 Pontius Pilate Inscription 311 Ossuary of the High Priest Caiaphas 315 Heel Bone of a Crucifixion Victim 318 Ossuary of Simon, "Builder of the Temple" 322 "Place of Trumpeting" Inscription 324 Temple Warning Inscription 327 Head of Caligula 329 Head of Claudius 333 The Gallio Inscription at Delphi 336 Letter from Apion 339 Diploma Granting Roman Citizenship 343 Market Gate of Miletus 348 Winged Victory of Samothrace 351
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