A British Museum Assyriologist sets the cuneiform tablets beside the Hebrew Scriptures: Babylonian creation and flood stories, Babylonia in the age of Abraham, the Tel el-Amarna letters and the Exodus, the Assyrian kings who fought Israel and Judah, and life in Babylon during the Captivity. Generous translations let the ancient records speak in their own words.
A careful, non-controversial guide for Bible readers curious about what Mesopotamian archaeology had revealed by the turn of the century. Download the free EPUB.