I just heard from somewhere that the assyrian empire ruled the world like long time ago, before jesus, is this true? and was jesus assyrian?
2006-12-13 21:27:12 · 5 answers · asked by battl3monkey 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Jesus was not Assyrian, he was a Jew.
The Assyrian empire did rule most of the Middle-East (including Egypt) for quite a long time (1300 BC-600 BC, but not continuously as they had periods of expansion and times of decline) but that's hardly the world, is it?
2006-12-13 22:05:35 · answer #1 · answered by Mischa 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm Assyrian, and I can tell you that Jesus was not Assyrian, but the Assyrians and Jesus do have a connection, we both speak/spoke forms of Aramaic. Assyrians today speak Assyrian (new Aramaic) while Jesus spoke Aramaic. We also were the first group of people to accept Christianity, so Jesus was not Assyrian. But the ancient Assyrians, my ancestors, did rule a majority of the Middle East. The Assyrian Empire stretched to as far away as Phoenicia (Lebanon), to parts of Persia (Iran). It was then conquered by invading Arabs, who tried to convert my ancestors to Islam--committing Genocide while doing so, and forever ending the Assyrian connection to their homeland (Iraq).
2006-12-15 10:40:44 · answer #2 · answered by ImAssyrian 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They didn't rule 'the world' or even the 'known world' ot the time (c1600- 600BC) Their empire, at its greatest stretched from about the area of modern Basra , along roughly what is now the border between Iraq and Jordan, then southwards along the Jordan valley to include Palestine. To the east it included most of modern Iran an on the north it skirted the southern edges of Lakes Urmia and Van, including what is now claimed as modern Kurdistan turing along the eastern edge of the Taurus mountains. No, Jesus was not Assyrian.
2006-12-13 22:05:43 · answer #3 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple (Matthew 23-25). "i'll deliver a flood of waters upon the earth" (Genesis 6:17; 7:10) "there'll come seven years of great lots for the time of each and all of the land of Egypt, yet after them there'll upward push up seven years of famine, and each and all of the lots would be forgotten interior the land of Egypt." (Genesis 40-one:29-30, fifty 3-fifty 4) The destruction of Sodom (Genesis 18-19). Jesus' dying and resurrection (Matthew sixteen:21; 27:50; 28:a million-10). And a collection extra.
2016-12-30 09:40:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. read the 'histories' by herodotus.
2006-12-13 21:37:10 · answer #5 · answered by indike111 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋