Archeology
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- Babylonian Epic Story
- Enuma Elish
- Sumerian scribe hoped to support belief that Sumerian kings always ruled, people lived longer
- Sumerian Kings list
- Flood according to Babylonian account, difference is Biblical Monotheism
- Gilgamesh Epic
- 15,000 Clay tablets, record Biblical parallels, earliest mention of Israel
- Ebla Tablets
- Clay tablets that are primary source for cultural and social life in Northern Mesopotamia
- Nuzi Tablets
- The laws that have much similarity to Mosaic law, on an 8 foot stone
- Hammurabi Code
- Pharoah of Egypt, mentions Israel as one of the countries he attacked
- Merneptah Stele
- twelve month lunar calandar, gave example of Hebrew text during time of Solomon
- Gezer Calendar
- list of prime ministers, or limmu, clarifies the chronology of the kingsq
- Eponym List
- Discovered in a building just west of the Omri-Ahab palace, probably during the reign of Jeroboam II
- Samaria Ostraca
- Pictures Jehu kissing the ground in submission before Assyrian Monarch
- Black Obelisk Stele
- Information about Omri, enjoyed great political prestige
- Moabite Stone
- Talks about Sargon the II of Assyria, Shalmaneser V
- Nimrud Prism
- Grave stone was found, king of Judah
- Uzziah' grave stone
- Copper ring with a ram and a man on it, likely belonged to an official of this king
- Seal of Jotham
- An inscription found near the exit at the tunnel carved out by Hezekiah
- Siloam Inscription
- Hezekiah was shut up like a bird in this
- Taylor Prism