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Nineveh
Nineveh , ancient city, capital of the Assyrian Empire, on the Tigris River opposite the site of modern Mosul, Iraq. A shaft dug at Nineveh has yielded a pottery sequence that can be equated with the earliest cultural development in N Mesopotamia. The old capital, Assur, was replaced by Calah, which... Read more
Nahum
Nahum , 7th of the books of the Minor Prophets of the Bible. It contains oracles of doom against Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire, delivered by one Nahum of Elkosh, who is otherwise unknown. The book can be divided into two sections: an acrostic announcing the coming of divine vengeance on Ni... Read more
Ahasuerus
Ahasuerus , Hebrew form of the name Xerxes, as used in the Bible. The Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther is probably Xerxes I. That in the Book of Tobit may be Cyaxares I, destroyer of Nineveh. The name of the father of Darius the Mede is also given as Ahasuerus. ... Read more
Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal (d. c.626 bc) (Assurbanipal) Last great king of Assyria (669–633 bc). During his reign, Assyria reached its largest extent, encompassing Upper Egypt, before a rapid decline. Excavations at Nineveh after 1850 revealed an advanced civilization.... Read more
Jonah
Jonah , prophetic book of the Bible. It tells the story of a prophet called by God to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh. According to the Second Book of Kings, Jonah lived during the reign (c.786 BC-c.746 BC) of Jeroboam II. In the story, Jonah flees because he does not want Nineveh to be spa... Read more
Sardanapalus
Sardanapalus , in the Persica of Ctesias , an Assyrian monarch who lived in great luxury. He was besieged in Nineveh by the Medes for two years, at the end of which time he set fire to his palace and burned himself and his court to death. Byron wrote a tragedy on the theme. The identity of Sardan... Read more
Media
Media , ancient country of W Asia whose actual boundaries cannot be defined, occupying generally what is now W Iran and S Azerbaijan. It extended from the Caspian Sea to the Zagros Mts. The Medes were an Indo-European people who spoke an Iranian language closely akin to old Persian. Some scholars cl... Read more
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot 1800-1877, English inventor of photographic processes (see photography, still ). A man of enormously versatile intelligence, he invented the "photogenic drawing" process in 1834. From 1841 on he patented his numerous processes for making negatives and positive prints, ... Read more
Assurbanipal
Assurbanipal or Ashurbanipal , d. 626? BC, king of ancient Assyria (669-633 BC), son and successor of Esar-Haddon . The last of the great kings of Assyria, he drove Taharka out of Egypt and firmly established Necho in power there only to have Necho's son Psamtik revolt in 660 BC and wrest E... Read more
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh , in Babylonian legend, king of Uruk . He is the hero of the Gilgamesh epic, a work of some 3,000 lines, written on 12 tablets c.2000 BC and discovered among the ruins at Nineveh. The epic was lost when the the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was destroyed in 612 BC The library'... Read more

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Nineveh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Nineveh , ancient city, capital of the Assyrian...of modern Mosul, Iraq. A shaft dug at Nineveh has yielded a pottery sequence that can...which seems to have been replaced by Nineveh. Nineveh was thereafter generally the...
Sennacherib
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the late Assyrian Empire. He rebuilt Nineveh and destroyed Babylon. Sennacherib is...Sargon's death, he hastened back to Nineveh, but rebellion broke out. In Babylonia...to seek him out; building a fleet at Nineveh, he sailed the ships downriver to Opis...
Nahum
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...It contains oracles of doom against Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire, delivered...announcing the coming of divine vengeance on Nineveh; and a vivid description of the city's destruction. Nineveh fell in 612 BC, and scholars differ as...
Assyria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...River and south of the later capital, Nineveh. Assyria's Rise The nucleus of a Semitic...s reign saw the Assyrian capital of Nineveh reach the height of its splendor. The...Nabopolassar, joined forces and took Nineveh in 612 BC Under the son of Nabopolassar...
Shalmaneser I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Assyria. He restored the temple at Assur, established a royal residence at Nineveh, and removed the capital from Assur to Calah, c.18 mi (29 km) S of Nineveh. Shalmaneser III, 859-824 BC, son of Ashurnasirpal, claimed to have defeated...
Hormuzd Rassam
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Turkish archaeologist. He assisted Sir Austen Henry Layard in Nineveh in 1845-47 and 1849-51, studying at Oxford in the years...of excavations for the British Museum, he discovered at Nineveh the palace of Assurbanipal. Later during fieldwork (1872...
Necho
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...after the Assyrian conquest in 670; he was later taken to Nineveh in chains for plotting to revolt but was pardoned and restored...took advantage of the confusion that followed the fall of Nineveh (612) to invade Palestine and Syria, both of which he took...
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1851 he explored and excavated in Mesopotamia, especially at Nineveh. In the period from 1852 to 1869 he held various government...British Museum. Among his books are Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853) and his autobiography (1903). Bibliography...
Assurbanipal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...living. The famous lion-hunt reliefs in the royal palace at Nineveh date from his reign and are among the finest examples of ancient...Assurbanipal was interested in learning; excavations at Nineveh have uncovered 22,000 clay tablets from his library&mdash...
Jonah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...a prophet called by God to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh. According to the Second Book of Kings, Jonah lived during...Jeroboam II. In the story, Jonah flees because he does not want Nineveh to be spared and knows that God is likely to forgive its people...

Dictionary entries related to "Nineveh"

Nineveh
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Nineveh The capital of Assyria , on the eastern bank of the River Tigris , and once the most...locust devastates the harvest (3: 15). The prophet Jonah was said to have preached at Nineveh (Jonah 3: 3; Luke 11: 30).
Isaac of Nineveh
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Isaac of Nineveh (d. c. 700), also ‘Isaac the Syrian’, monastic writer. About 676 he was made Bp. of Nineveh by the Catholicos of the Church of the East, but he soon retired to live in solitude in Khuzistan. His writings...
Nineveh, Fast of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Nineveh, Fast of. A pre- Lenten fast of two or three days observed in the Church of the East, the Syrian Orthodox, and Coptic Churches in the third week before Lent, and in the Armenian Church immediately before Lent.
African Israel Church Nineveh
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions African Israel Church Nineveh. An early independent church in Kenya, mainly among the Luhya and the Luo. It was founded by the highly charismatic David Zayako...
Jonah, book of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...BCE . It describes how Jonah was sent to warn Nineveh , capital of Assyria , of its great evil and of the consequences...the prophet deplored the success; he thought the people of Nineveh deserved to suffer. For this curmudgeonly attitude, he was...
Sennacherib
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...according to 2 Kings 19:35). He also rebuilt the city of Nineveh and made it his capital. Sennacherib is the Assyrian described...devastated by divine intervention (2 Kings 35). On his return to Nineveh he was assassinated by his sons.
Nahum, book of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...the single theme—the fall of the Assyrian capital Nineveh (612 BCE)—permits an approximate date. The prophet...is a tauntsong which seems to be celebrating the news that Nineveh has already just fallen. These verses might therefore have...
Assyria
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...Tigris , corresponding to modern northern Iraq. In the city of Nineveh pottery which has been discovered is proof of habitation in...and Medes and Chaldeans expelled Assyrians from Babylonia. Nineveh was captured in 612 BCE (cf. Nahum 3: 7). This gave a...
Penitence
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...Magdalene abjectly cleans Jesus ’ s feet with tears; dries them with her hair. [N.T.: Luke 7:37 – 50] Nineveh townspeople repented for wickedness by fasting and donning sackcloth. [O.T.: Jonah 3:5 – 10] Pelagius the...
Ashurbanipal
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...revolt in Babylon. However, he is chiefly recognized for his patronage of the arts; he established a library of more than 20,000 clay tablets at Nineveh, which included literary, religious, scientific, and administrative documents.

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Nineveh: Papers of the [XLIX.sup.e] Rencontre Assyriologique International, London, 7-11 July 2003.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Nineveh: Papers of the [XLIX.sup.e] Rencontre...anniversary. The theme of the Rencontre, "Nineveh," chosen to highlight the museum's...one appropriately concerns the city of Nineveh itself. Marc Van De Mie-roop's "A...
Istar of Nineveh reconsidered
Magazine article from: Journal of Cuneiform Studies; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...to the study of the goddess Istar of Nineveh (1957),1 a deity found not only in...millennium Anatolia, among whom Istar of Nineveh enjoyed particular prominence. The earliest mention of Nineveh of which I am aware is in a text from...
POLITICS-IRAQ: WITNESSES DESCRIBE BALLOT FRAUD IN NINEVEH
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 11/7/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...ballot fraud by Kurdish authorities in Nineveh province, the key to the outcome of the...stations in various non-Kurdish areas of Nineveh and created a climate of fear and intimidation...the vote against the constitution on the Nineveh plain. They also support Sunni charges...
You Walked in Nineveh.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Midstream; 11/1/2003; ; 550 words ; ...Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles) In Nineveh in the filthy streets of the ancient city...the sanctuary where the chazan sang In Nineveh, now Mosul, you bent low to enter that...found as you walked through Mosul, once Nineveh: shattered and sewage-smeared homes...
SECTARIAN STRIFE SKIPS NINEVEH PROVINCE, STRYKER TEAM COMMANDER SAYS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/21/2006; 694 words ; ...Shiites in Baghdad has seemingly bypassed Nineveh province in northern Iraq, a U.S...seen that level of sectarian violence in Nineveh province," said Col. Michael Shields...fall of 2004, the Iraqi police force in Nineveh province "had collapsed," he noted...
'Palace without a rival'.(Nineveh, Assyria)(King Sennacherib)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...on the east bank of the Tigris River, Nineveh was the last great capital of the Assyrian...earlier kings had built at the site, Nineveh did not reach its height of power and...years--between 705 and 690 B.C.--Nineveh was enclosed by an enormous wall more...
The final sack of Nineveh: the discovery, documentation, and destruction of King Sennacherib's throne room at Nineveh, Iraq.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...JOHN MALCOLM RUSSELL. The final sack of Nineveh: the discovery, documentation, and...of King Sennacherib's throne room at Nineveh, Iraq. 192 pages. 1998. New Haven...sterling] & $60. The first sack of Nineveh, which marked the beginning of the end...
Kurdish-Sunni Tensions In Nineveh.
Newspaper article from: APS Review Gas Market Trends; 5/25/2009; 700+ words ; ...Kurdish-Sunni Arab tensions are boiling in Nineveh, the north-Western province which includes...government's sovereignty over all of Nineveh, have pressured districts under their...hundreds of armed Kurds stopped the Nineveh police chief, a Sunni Arab, from crossing...
From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...that one of the plaster castings of the Nineveh marbles from the palace of Assurnasirpal...raised was [pounds]7 million. In From Nineveh to New York: the strange story of the...antiquarian, Austen Henry Layard, the Nineveh marbles were one route to public renown...
30,000 families displaced from Iraq's Nineveh since 2003 war: official
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 9/24/2009; 446 words ; ...000 families displaced from Iraq's Nineveh since 2003 war: official 30,000 families displaced from Iraq's Nineveh since 2003 war: official MOSUL, Iraq...been displaced from northern Iraq's Nineveh province since the U.S.- led war...