What is "assyrian"

Usage examples of "assyrian".

However, to return in thought to the past, of which our present is the continuation: the old Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.

Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.

Those in the Word are the wars which the children of Israel waged with various nations, Amorites, Moabites, Philistines, Syrians, Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assyrians.

The Canaanites, along with the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Moabites, the Aramaeans and others recalled the debts to their gods and offered their children as burnt offerings.

Jones was not an Egyptologist, but a specialist in Assyriology who had come from California to work on the great Assyrian dictionary.

The Babylonians and Assyrians attained to a high degree of proficiency in brickmaking, notably in the manufacture of bricks having a coating of coloured glaze or enamel, which they largely used for wall decoration.

Arabic, innumerable Indian dialects, Hebrew, Pehlevi, Assyrian, Babylonian, Mongolian, Chinese, Burmese, Mesopotamian, Javanese: the list of philological works considered Orientalist is almost uncountable.

A type of djinni much favored by the Assyrian magicians for their unintelligent devotion to violence.

The Arnsteins think that your people, the Hurrians there, would accept anyone connected with your old royal house, because they hated the Assyrians so.

Assyrians with the means of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army.

Assyrians invoked the bull who guarded the gates: O great bull, O very great bull, which stampest high, which openest access to the interior .

Hittites, Perizzites, Ammonites, Assyrians, Persians, Babylonians, and other people who had been living in that time.

Later Assyrian and Babylonian kings ruled all of modern Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel.

Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians have all tried to establish a port at this most strategic juncture, but the mud that never ceases to flow from the top of the world to the bottom eventually buries each attempt.

Remember that the Old Testament owes much of the harshness of its god to the influence of the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians.