That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed ... The workforce consisted largely of war widows and orphans, and also slaves captured from the mountains surrounding Mesopotamia.

Baal is first mentioned in a list of Mesopotamian gods in an inscription ... Baal agrees to be Mot’s slave in submission to his wrath. But he also sends a message to El to inform his father ...

They dealt with the consequences of slavery, for long a wide-spread issue ... But the aims of the first lawmakers were not just practical.The Mesopotamian kings wrapped their laws in grand ...

According to the Sages, it was Esther who asked the Jewish community to write the Megillah, so that they would remember her: ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...

In ancient Mesopotamia, blood covenants were used in legal and political ... God delivered the Israelite slaves from Egypt, and the Passover covenant (Exodus 12) showed how the blood of the lamb gave ...

After the Israelites escape their slavery in Egypt, they begin to complain ... Instead, the snake in this ancient Mesopotamian story seems to remind us that we all will die someday, no matter how hard ...

In 1206 AD, northern Mesopotamian scholar and engineer Ibn Ismail ibn al ... which means “hard work” or “slavery.” With his play Rossumovi Univerzáln Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots) in 1920, Karel ...