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Iraq and the Bible

The name “Iraq” does not appear in the Bible. However, more ancient names for this place, its cities and people do appear.

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• What is Nineveh?
• What is Calah?
• What is Nimrud?
• Who is Nimrod? Was he godly or evil?
• What is the Euphrates River of Mesopotamia?
• Abram and was born in what is now Iraq
• What is Ur in the Bible?
• Who is Abraham? and what is his significance?
• Reputed Tomb of Ezekiel in Iraq
• What is Sepharvaim? (aka Sephar-vaim, Sippara)
• Who is Sargon who once conquered in ancient Iraq?
• What is the land of Shinar?
• Elam, the land/empire
• About idolatry and false gods in the Bible
• About idols in the Bible
• What is cuneiform writing?
• Who is Xerxes I?
• Who is Ahasuerus?
• What is Ellasar?
• What is the Book of Esther?

LIONS in the Bible

• Lions of Babylon (Iraq)
• City and region of Asshur (aka Assur)
• Syriac Aramaic language use in ancient Iraq
• What is the Tower of Babel? and what is known about it?
• What is the Tower of Babel? and what is it important?
• Tower of Babel—Is there archaeological evidence of it?
• What is the confusion of languages at Babel?
• Confusion of Languages—Is there any reference in early Mesopotamian literature to what happened at the Tower of Babel?
• Origin of Ethnic People Groups—Where did they all come from?
• Who is Asnapper (aka Osnapper, Ashurbanipal?
• Lentils, grown in Iraq
• Asphalt/bitumen (pitch) springs of Hit, Iraq
• City of Cuthah (Tell Ibrahim, Iraq)
• Erech (Uruk, Warka, Iraq)—What is it?
• Baghdad
• Learn about Bible archaeology
• Sutean language of the Suteans, a nomadic Semitic people who lived throughout the Levant, Canaan and Mesopotamia, specifically in an ancient region called Suhum, now located in modern Iraq and Syria
• Baghdad