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Other ANE empires

Other ANE empires. Persia and Palestine. Ancient Near East: the empires. Ancient Near East: the empires. Evolution of the empires: Sumer  c. 3000-2500 Akkad  c. 2350-2250 Assyria  c. 2100-1800 Babylonia  c. 1800-1400 Rivalries throughout the period (a large geography)

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Other ANE empires

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  1. Other ANE empires Persia and Palestine

  2. Ancient Near East: the empires

  3. Ancient Near East: the empires • Evolution of the empires: • Sumer  c. 3000-2500 • Akkad  c. 2350-2250 • Assyria  c. 2100-1800 • Babylonia  c. 1800-1400 • Rivalries throughout the period (a large geography) • (1100-900: a relative “dark” age) • Persia  grows out of Assyria, Phoenicia, Babylon, etc. • 500bc: “How the west was won?” • How the EAST was LOST

  4. Uniquely influential: Palestine

  5. Palestine • 4004bc: • ~1900bc: Abram • ~1500bc: Moses • ~1000bc: Saul / David • 10th c. bc (~970s-920s bc): Solomon • Divided kingdom: • 922-722bc: Israel (north) • 922-586bc: Judah (south)

  6. Palestine • 722bc: Assyrian conquest of Israel (Tiglath-Pilezer iii) • 586bc: Babylonian conquest of Judah (Nebuchadnezzar ii) • Temple destruction • 536bc: Persian conquest of Babylon (Cyrus) • 516/515bc: Temple rebuilt (Darius) • Renovation 20bc (Herod the great); destruction in 70ad (Vespasian / Titus) • Now Dome of the Rock (late 7th c. ad)

  7. Palestine (Judaism) • The big ideas: • Monotheism (cf. Decalogue) • Covenant faith (cf. Abraham) • Translation to law (cf. policy) • Torah • The law and the prophets • Prophet, priest, and king • Messianism

  8. Other ANE empires: Persia and Palestine • Main points to remember: • Iron age • United monarchy • Divided monarchy • Babylonian exile • Syncretism • Covenant • Pentateuch • Torah

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