Brit-Am Research Sources (13 November, 2014, 20 Cheshvan, 5775)
Contents:
1. Was there a Scattering of Many Israelites before the Assyrian Exile?
2. Climate change and population growth may have been factors in Assyrian Empire collapse
3. Interesting Picture. A Bagpipe in Jewish Culture:
The 14th Century "Barcelona Haggadah"
4. Behistun Rock Equation of Cimmerians and Scythians
5. Eastern Origin of Scandinavians
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1. Was there a Scattering of Many Israelites before the Assyrian Exile?
[Numbers 24:7] HE SHALL POUR THE WATER OUT OF HIS BUCKETS, AND HIS SEED SHALL BE IN MANY WATERS, AND HIS KING SHALL BE HIGHER THAN AGAG, AND HIS KINGDOM SHALL BE EXALTED.
##POUR THE WATER OUT OF HIS BUCKETS##
The Commentator, #The Natziv#, on this verse brings a tradition concerning a partial exile of Israelites even before the Assyrian Conquest and Exile of the Ten Tribes.
He says: #In the time of the Judges there were many wars and many were expelled amongst the peoples of the world.#
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2. Climate change and population growth may have been factors in Assyrian Empire collapse
Posted by Past Horizons, on November 7, 2014
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2014/climate-change-and-population-growth-may-be-factors-in-assyrian-empire-collapse
Archaeological, historical, and palaeoclimatic evidence suggests that climatic factors and population growth might have contributed to the decline of the Assyrian Empire along with civil wars and political unrest.
This is the claim of Adam Schneider of the University of California-San Diego in the US, and Selim Adali of the Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations in Turkey, in a report published in the journal Climatic Change.
Decline, a mystery
In the 9th century BC, the Assyrian Empire of northern Iraq relentlessly started to expand into most of the ancient Near East. It reached its height in the early 7th century BC, becoming the largest of its kind in the Near East up to that time. The Assyrian Empire's subsequent quick decline by the end of the 7th century has puzzled scholars ever since. Most ascribe it to civil wars, political unrest, and the destruction of the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, by a coalition of Babylonian and Median forces in 612 BC. Nevertheless, it has remained a mystery why the Assyrian state, the military superpower of the age, succumbed so suddenly and so quickly.
Arid conditions and population growth
Schneider and Adali argue that factors such as population growth and droughts also contributed to the Assyrian downfall. Recently published palaeoclimate data show that conditions in the Near East became more arid during the latter half of the 7th century BC. During this time, the region also experienced significant population growth when people from conquered lands were forcibly resettled there. The authors contend that this substantially reduced the state's ability to withstand a severe drought such as the one that hit the Near East in 657 BC. They also note that within five years of this drought, the political and economic stability of the Assyrian state had eroded, resulting in a series of civil wars that fatally weakened it.
'What we are proposing is that these demographic and climatic factors played an indirect but significant role in the demise of the Assyrian Empire,' says Schneider.
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3. Interesting Picture. A Bagpipe in Jewish Culture:
The 14th Century "Barcelona Haggadah
http://www.hotpipes.com/barc.html
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4. Behistun Rock Equation of Cimmerians and Scythians
http://www.churchathome.org/pdf/America-and-Britain.pdf
The Bible Research Handbook notes: # The [Behistun] rock carries
on its face an important cuneiform inscription of Darius Hystaspes (Darius
the Great). This inscription, which was cut circa 516 BC, records in three
languages: Persian, Susian (Median), and Babylonian, the names of
twenty-three provinces subject to him. In the Persian and Susian versions,
one of these provinces is called Scythia, the root of which is, phonetically,
Sak. In the Babylonian text, this [same] province is called '(matu) Gimiri,'
translated, 'land of the Cimmerians.' #
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5. Eastern Origin of Scandinavians
Symbolic and Ornamental Similarities of the Nordic Goths and Buddhist Asia
Golden Leaf offerings in Iron Age Norway and Sweden and in Buddhist India & Pakistan
http://oldgoths.blogspot.co.il/2009/05/pictorial-connections-betwen-nordic.html
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