ARTH-135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dead Sea Scrolls, Fertile Crescent, Melting Pot
Document Summary
Mesopotamia fertile crescent (between tigris and euphrates) Dead sea scrolls (old testament) discovered in mesopotamia. Led to a biblical gold rush (scrolls and artifacts to confirm bible events: found stone featuring a second source of the moabite battle featured in the old testament. King nebuchadnezzar (famous king of babylon in bible) Melting pot (people of many races and religions) Hebrews wrote down bible stories to protect identity of their people in the mass of different kinds of people. Tower of babel not found however, according to the bible, babylonians never finished the tower because god mixed up their languages. Hammurabi"s code written laws of the ancient world. Ninevah found (access to the great library of ninevah) Tomb of assyrian queen found intact, full of treasure. The siege of lachis story in both the bible and historical documents. Epic of gilgamesh told story of great flood, similar to noah"s arc. Ur (center of sumerian civilization) birthplace of abraham.
