by hadassah | Mar 2, 2016 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas
King Shaµpuµr receives tribute from the Roman emperors Valerian (253–260), who bows before him, and Philip the Arab (244–249), who stands in the background, offering his arms to the mounted king. Shaµpuµr, who called himself “King of Kings of Iran and Non-Iran,” ruled...
by hadassah | Nov 18, 2015 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas, Greco-Roman Period
Wall painting of a procession of a guild of carpenters, Pompeii. Procession through the streets of Pompeii that is illustrated in a preserved wall painting that decorates a carpentry shop in Pompeii.
by hadassah | Nov 17, 2015 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas, Greco-Roman Period
Hagia Sophia is the supreme masterpiece of Byzantine architecture. Hagia Sophia is a former Christian patriarchal basilica, later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
by hadassah | Oct 23, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas, Bible and Beyond
Werner Keller. The Bible as History. Bantam Books. New York. 1982. p.310.
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas
Jews in the Greco-Roman Diaspora (332 BCE-7th century CE) Jews in the Hellenistic World Much more is known about the Jewish communities of the western Diaspora in this period. We have already met the small colony of Jewish troops that was based in Elephantine...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas
CHAPTER 9. What Befell The Jews That Were In Babylon On Occasion Of Asineus And Anileus, Two Brethren. 1. A Very sad calamity now befell the Jews that were in Mesopotamia, and especially those that dwelt in Babylonia. Inferior it was to none of the calamities which...
