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bookandswordblog<p>I am proud of this two-part series on the Astronomical Diary for the battle of Gaugamela which explains cubeiform and German scholarship in English <a href="https://www.bookandsword.com/2015/06/27/two-perspectives-on-the-astronomical-diary-for-gaugamela-part-1-background/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bookandsword.com/2015/06/27/tw</span><span class="invisible">o-perspectives-on-the-astronomical-diary-for-gaugamela-part-1-background/</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cuneitoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cuneitoot</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a></p>
bookandswordblog<p>Classic post: a comment on Diodorus. Diodorus Siculus was as prejudiced about foreigners as the average Euro or settler a hundred years ago, but he still knew that Phoenician cities had citizen-soldiers.</p><p><a href="https://www.bookandsword.com/2014/02/08/417/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bookandsword.com/2014/02/08/41</span><span class="invisible">7/</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/antiquidons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiquidons</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p>
bookandswordblog<p>The seal impression of king Hezekiah of Judah on a clay seal ("bulla") with a winged sun motif and an Egyptian ankh. Bullae were used to seal strings that closed documents, lids, and doors <a href="https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/king-hezekiah-in-the-bible-royal-seal-of-hezekiah-comes-to-light/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/</span><span class="invisible">news/king-hezekiah-in-the-bible-royal-seal-of-hezekiah-comes-to-light/</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/aramaic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aramaic</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/hebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hebrew</span></a></p>
bookandswordblog<p>Classic post: I now have 21 examples of 120,000 as "the size a terrifying foreign army or doomed city should be" in Jewish, Greek, and Roman literature. Twelve is the number of fulfillment. <a href="https://www.bookandsword.com/2020/03/28/some-terrifying-numbers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bookandsword.com/2020/03/28/so</span><span class="invisible">me-terrifying-numbers/</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a></p>
bookandswordblog<p>Classic post: what happens when the big rich temple in the next city sends a lot of armed servants and a bishop who explains that your god is just an aspect of their god so hand over the treasury? <a href="https://www.bookandsword.com/2023/09/02/w-g-lambert-on-theological-imperialism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bookandsword.com/2023/09/02/w-</span><span class="invisible">g-lambert-on-theological-imperialism/</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cuneitoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cuneitoot</span></a></p>
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