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Time to Rebuild the Temple
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In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, this word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE

Subjects:

Temple, Jerusalem, Cities, Leadership, Monarchy

Categories:

Literature, Prophetic Literature
Letter from Acre to His Father: First Part
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After wishing you good health and well-being and kissing your hand, as is befitting, and also to Madame my mother, blessed among women, amen, and to all the members of the household, may the Rock…

Contributor:

Abraham Ishmael Ḥay Sanguinetti

Places:

Acre, Ottoman Empire (Acre, Israel)

Date:

1741

Subjects:

Travel, Monarchy, Cities, Economic life, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Letters
Esarhaddon’s Prism Nineveh A
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I mobilized the kings of Hatti and “Beyond-the-River”: Baal, king of Tyre; Manasseh, king of Judah; Kaus-gabri, king of Edom; Mutsuri, king of Moab; Tsilli-Bel, king of Gaza; Mitinti, king of Ashkelon…

Places:

Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

673–672 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, War, Monarchy, Cities, Exile

Categories:

History, Inscriptions, History