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Sep 26, 2026
Hunter BarnesHOST
They greeted the king for all their colleagues, the judges and local leaders, the people of Tarpel, the Persians, the Babylonians, and the people of Erek and Susa, that is, Elam.
Hunter BarnesHOST
They also sent greetings from the rest of the people whom the great and noble Ashurbanipal had deported and relocated in Samaria and throughout the neighboring lands of the province west of the Euphrates River.
Hunter BarnesHOST
This is a copy of their letter.
Hunter BarnesHOST
to King Artaxerxes from your loyal subjects in the province west of the Euphrates River.
John McKeeHOST
Yet the judgment upon Nineveh had been temporarily averted, per the work of Jonah, Jonah 3.4.
John McKeeHOST
However, following the death of Ashurbanipal, The Babylonians began approaching upon Assyria, by this time a waning power.
John McKeeHOST
The prophet Nahum cheered the fall of Nineveh as part of the divine justice of God.
John McKeeHOST
Notable parallels exist between the books of Nahum and Isaiah.
MarkHOST
okay.
MarkHOST
All right, so Ashurbanipal is a king of Assyria around 631 BCE.
MarkHOST
And he spends his reign collecting tablets at Nineveh, over 30,000 tablets and fragments, which is the first thing any would recognize as a library.
MarkHOST
And in 612 BCE, The Medes sack the city and burn the palace, and the fire partially bakes the clay.
David M. PerryGUEST
So there's the famous, also in the British Museum, I think, The Lion Hunt story.
David M. PerryGUEST
from, what is it, Ashurbanipal or something like that.
David M. PerryGUEST
And it's a Syrian lion hunt.
David M. PerryGUEST
And it's carving after carving after carving, one after another, telling the story with lots of text.
Matthew GabrieleHOST
The fact that it's being exhibited in the British Museum, which has its, you know, I love the British Museum, but, you know, it has its problems with artifacts from other places.
Matthew GabrieleHOST
Yeah.
Matthew GabrieleHOST
Including Ashurbanipal.
Matthew GabrieleHOST
Indeed, among many others, which you can Google very easily, which curators at the British Museum, many of them are very aware of.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Strabo tells us on the authority of Polycletus that the town had no walls in the time of Alexander and extended over a space 200 stadia in length.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
In the 8th century BC it was enclosed by walls with bastions, which are shown on a bas-relief of Assurbanipal, but it was surrounded by unfortified suburbs.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
End footnote.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
End section 4.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
The little that we know of Elamite religion reveals to us a mysterious world full of strange names and vague forms.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Over their hierarchy there presided a deity who is called Shushunak, the Susian, Demesh or Shamesh, Dagbag, As-Siga, Adaina, and possibly Kumba in Ayman, whom the Chaldeans identified with their god Ninip.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
His statue was concealed in a sanctuary inaccessible to the profane, but it was dragged from thence by Assurbanipal of Nineveh in the 17th century BC.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Footnote.
Matt LaCroixGUEST
That was around 2800 BC, so about 3000 years ago.
Matt LaCroixGUEST
There was a civilization there that was during the same time as the Neo-Assyrian civilizations further south in ancient Mesopotamia, right? Ashurbanipal, Sennacherib, we've talked about them before.
Matt LaCroixGUEST
There was a competition going on over empires fighting during that time period, and they were being invaded constantly, and they were a war civilization.
Matt LaCroixGUEST
now that is that group the urartians is what archaeologists believe built all of these sites around not only lake vaughn but further east in armenia and other locations and we can talk about why they believe that and what we know we're getting into but the what really broke this open is that getting back to what I was just referring to, Lake Vaughan in Eastern Turkey, there's a, it's one of the, by the way, it's one of the largest and deepest lakes on earth.
James BleckleyHOST
Rule by experts.
James BleckleyHOST
Sennacherib had been obsessed with funding and promoting the expert craftsmen of his empire, and Ashurbanipal will be famous for his great library.
James BleckleyHOST
But no one trusted the science as profoundly as did S.R. Haddon, who was both educated in and remained up-to-date with the most advanced knowledge of his time, ecstasy.
James BleckleyHOST
And I will struggle to pronounce that this entire episode.
Bob KeyserHOST
He carried off over 25,000 Jews from northern Israel, resettling the region with an equal number of Cuthites, Sepharites, and Hamathites.
Bob KeyserHOST
Later, Ashurbanipal sent even more groups of people to live in Samaria.
Bob KeyserHOST
In Jesus and the apostles' era, ill will between the Jews and Samaritans remained strong.
Bob KeyserHOST
When the Jews returned to Palestine, the Samaritans tried to stop them from rebuilding Jerusalem, and then later they helped Alexander the Great as he conquered the land.
Adam MarcetichNARRATOR
They were filled with libraries, and the libraries with thousands of books.
Adam MarcetichNARRATOR
The royal library, already referred to as furnishing so rich a treasure of cuneiform tablets, was begun by Sennacherib, who reigned 705 to 681 BC, and completed by Assur-Bani-Pal, who reigned about 668 to 626 BC.
Adam MarcetichNARRATOR
There were libraries too in Palestine in early days, but we know nothing of them.
Adam MarcetichNARRATOR
they may have been archives or places where records were kept rather than libraries as we understand the term the name of kir josh sefer a city near hebron means city of books and survives from pre israelitish times By the Jews, records and the book of the law were preserved in the temple.
CharliePANELIST
We're going to focus around 1500 BCE, the Babylonian Empire.
CharliePANELIST
We're going to look at the King Ashurbanipal, who had a library of cuneiform tablets, and a lot of them referenced ghosts and exorcism directly.
CharliePANELIST
So about 1,000 years before the Greeks, 500 years before the Buddha, 800 years before the rise of Rome.
CharliePANELIST
And again, between two rivers, parts of Iran, Syria, Kuwait, Turkey, the Fertile Crescent, the Zagoros Mountains in the north.
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