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What achievements did the aramaeans make?
They discovered Hierolglyphics
What people live in Syria Lebanon and Jordan?
Palestinians, Circassians, Chechens, Armenians, Assyrians, Syrians, and Aramaeans live in Suria, Lebanon and Jordan.
What led Sennacherib to attack other kingdoms?
In 703 BCE Marduk of Babylon formed an alliance of Chaldeans, Aramaeans against Sennacheirb when he was enthroned in Assyria. Sennacherib counter-attacked, suppressed the rebellion and and took Babylon.
What nationality was Job in the Bible?
The Bible says in Job 1:1 that he was a man from the land of "Uz". Uz, or Hus, is usually associated with the land of Aram and the Aramaeans. Job may have been an Aramaean since he lived in that land.
What has the author Merrill F Unger written?
Merrill F. Unger has written: 'Archaeology and the New Testament' -- subject(s): Antiquities, Bible, Evidences, authority, History of contemporary events 'Israel and the Aramaeans of Damascus' -- subject(s): Foreign relations, History
Was Baal a female goddess worshipped by the Philistines?
A:Not true. Baal was a male god worshipped by the Philistines, but also by the Edomites, Israelites, Aramaeans and Phoenicians. There is very little evidence that Baal was worshipped in the southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, but he was worshipped everywhere else around the Levant in ancient times.
Was Jesus an Aramaean?
Aram was the ancient city now known as Damascus, and Aramaeans were its inhabitants. Aramaic was the language of Aram, which was wisely chosen by by the Persians as the common language of their new empire. Aram had already been a great military and trading power, so the language was already well known in parts of the empire. And being a Semitic language, very similar, for example, to Hebrew, it would be easy for much of the empire to adopt. First of all the fact that Jesus would have spoken Aramaic would not make him an Aramaean. After Alexander defeated the Persians, most of the Near East adopted Greek as their common language, but the Jews perversely stayed with Aramaic. So all Palestinian Jews spoke Aramaic, whether they lived in Galilee or Judea. The majority of Galilean Jews were not true ethnic Jews, in that they were not immigrants from Judea in the south. Rather, they were forcibly converted to Judaism in the second century BCE by the Maccabeans. Before this, they were pagans, much like their neighbours in the region, including the Aramaeans. If Jesus was a Galilean, it is logically possible, with fluid borders, that he was descended from Aramaeans.
What was the first recorded act of anti-semitism in the Old Testament?
We can not realistically talk of anti-semitism in biblical times. The various nations of the ancient Near East warred against each other from time to time, but for secular reasons such as power, prestige, greed or revenge, not because of religious bigotry. At times, Israel's neighbours invaded Israel; at other times Israel invaded its neighbours. Moreover, Israel's neighbours were themselves Semitic people - including the Canaanites, Itureans, Moabites, Edomites and Aramaeans. Anti-semitism is a meaningless term in that context.
What were the Syrian kings and their Jewish neighbors like?
In early biblical times, it is not really possible to talk of either Syrians or Jews, although of course modern Syrians and Jews are the direct descendants of the people of those times. The people of what is now known as Syria were the Aramaeans, a West Semitic people who gradually evolved the Aramaic language. There was no territorial state of the Aramaeans, but a network of somewhat aligned city-states, the most powerful of which was Damascus. The Israelites were also ethnically West Semitic people, not much different from the coastal Canaanites and the Aramaeans. Israel was not unique but nevertheless somewhat unusual in occupying a territorial kingdom, whose principal capital city was Samaria. And to the south was the smaller enclave of Judah, based on the city of Jerusalem. The kings of Israel and Judah enjoyed sovereignity over far larger territories than did the Aramaean kings, but this was mountainous, rural territory, not necessarily conducive to great wealth. While the Bible would have Solomon as a king who enjoyed fabulous wealth that would have been envied by the king of Damascus, arcaheologists say that the Judah of the tenth century BCE was really just a small, sparsely populated and relatively impoverished rural backwater. The kings of Damascus and Israel were sometimes allies and sometimes opponents, just as Israel and Judah were sometimes opponents, with Israel even invading Judah at certain times in history. The closeness of the relationship between the Aramaean states and Israel is demonstrated by the similarity or the Aramaic and Hebrew languages. They clearly shared a common ancestry and a shared culture and even religion. While the Bible, written in Judah centuries later, would have the Israelite kings as backsliders who were frequently being warned by prophets to worship Yahweh to the exclusion of other, foreign gods, the facts are different. The northern kingdom of Israel was always in its history polytheistic. The kings of Israel and of Damascus had much in common, and this included, to a large extent, common religious beliefs. Judah was similarly polytheistic until the religious reforms under King Josiah.
Who were the Phoenician Gods?
There were many, each with a special sphere of interest. The principal one were: Adonis, Anath, Asherah, Astarte, Baal; Kathirat, Kothar, Hasism, Melkart, Mot, Tanit, Yamm, Yarikh The high god was Baal.
Was the Old Testament written in Aramaic and the New Testament written in Greek?
A small portion is, yes.The whole Bible is written in three languages.Aramaic, spoken by the Aramaeans, is an ancient Semitic language with close ties to Hebrew (though the language itself is different, it uses the same letters in its alphabet and is also written from right to left)Formerly called Chaldee, it is found in Ezra 4:8 - 6:18and 7:12-26; Jeremiah 10:11; and parts of Daniel 2:4 - 7:28.The rest of the OT is written in Hebrew.The NT is written primarily in Greek (it is believed that Matthew was written in Hebrew)
How did Moses impact in history?
The near-consensus of scholars is that there never was an Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible, in which case there never really was a great Israelite leader called Moses. Thus, Moses had no direct impact on history, but the legendary story of Moses certainly did. Because the story of Moses is central to the Old Testament, it is central to the subsequent development of Judaism. And without a strong belief in a glorious past and their divine right to the land of the Canaanites, the Jews might not have survived the Babylonian Exile as a coherent group determined to restore what they saw as their birthright. The second-century-BCE Maccabean conquests of Idumea and Galilee resulted in the forcible conversion to Judaism of the local populations, arguably to restore the 'Promised Land' to Jewish ownership even if those Jews were descendants of Edomites and Aramaeans.
