Assyria Quotes

“famous pictorial elaboration of the motif is Eugène Delacroix’s 1827 painting The Death of Sardanapallus,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“Assyrian and Babylonian records were used to confirm the reliability of the sacred history outlined in the biblical books”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“the Hebrew Bible came to be interrogated more and more as a historical rather than a holy text.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“It ushered in a period of Hellenistic rule over large parts of Asia and was a turning point in world history.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“This was no “empty land,” and the fall of the empire was no “end of history.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“Given such signs of continuity, “post-imperial” is a more apt term than “post-Assyrian”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“not only as a secular polity, but also as a religious idea, a symbolic order.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“Without its kings, Assyria ceased to exist,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“All in all, Assyria between the 630s and 609 was ravaged by a perfect storm.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“and the bones of Assyria’s great kings were scattered throughout the city.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“Now, both the Ashur Temple and the royal tombs lay in ruins,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“the seat of the Assyrian state god Ashur, and the place where the Assyrian kings were crowned and buried.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“Since time immemorial, Ashur had been the religious heart of the kingdom,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“Children, apart from bringing joy, were expected to take care of their parents when the latter grew old,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“Astrology and extispicy were the two most prestigious techniques of prognostication in first-millennium Mesopotamia,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“featured the king standing in front of a rampant lion, and stabbing it with his sword.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“The Assyrian royal seal, in use from the mid-ninth century onward and impressed countless times on clay bullae and clay tablets,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“and Sennacherib by his opponents”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“notorious for his iconoclastic tendencies, was called a Nestorian, an Amalekite, a chameleon,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“The eighth-century CE Byzantine emperor Leo III,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“as a vindication of Hezekiah’s decision—and not as the humiliation that it actually was for the Judean king.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“for the authors of the biblical account of Sennacherib’s campaign, this was enough to describe its outcome”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“And a bas-relief from Tiglath-pileser’s palace in Calah seems to show that Samsi, just like Aisha, was riding a camel when she eventually fled the scene.17”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“The depiction on Shalmaneser’s “Black Obelisk” from Calah of Jehu prostrating himself before the Assyrian king is another “historical first”:”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“that in their first joint appearance on the historical stage, we find them fighting side by side.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“and it is worth noting, considering the modern-day tensions between the state of Israel and the Arab world,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“These are the earliest references to named Israelite and Arab rulers in history,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“The anti-Assyrian coalition at Qarqar included Ahab, the king of Israel, and Gindibu’, king of the Arabs.”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“from the paridaida of the Persian kings in Pasargadae and Persepolis (from which the word “paradise” derives)”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

“All Assyrian kings who ruled after Ashurnasirpal I took on names previously held by some Middle Assyrian ruler,”
― Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire