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And yet, the Bible mentions him in just a few rather ambiguous lines! A few additional Akkadian rulers are known, but they were no longer powerful emperors, and the city of Akkad was eventually abandoned and lost.

Nineveh was the last, and best-known, capital of Assyria, from about 700 B.

" He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh.

It sprang wholly from one couple and all the peoples were brothers to each other.

Thus it is said, 'Nimrod the tyrannical opponent of YHWH.

Many of the names of these descendants are names of nations, tribes, lands and cities, known to us from elsewhere in the Bible and from extra-biblical sources: Yavan Greece , Madai Medea , Ashkenaz not Germany, but perhaps the Scythians, a nomadic steppe people north of the Caspian Sea , Cush Nubia , Mizraim Egypt , Canaan and so forth.

Why would we use a man as a mediator if we can know him intimately ourselves? Both were credited with extraordinary prowess.

Everything else is a lie, a cover up, a mask, a DECEIT! Sargon and Naram-Sin in Later Historiography We know very little about the historical Sargon or Naram-Sin, but to the Mesopotamian literati of the Late Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian periods, the age of Sargon and Naram-Sin was one of the important stages in human history.

However, besides his being in a literal sense an hunter, he was in a figurative sense one, a tyrannical ruler and governor of men.

Rashi presents Nimrod as the instigator of the Tower of Babel.

Therefore, Daniel and his friends were permitted to eat vegetables for the duration of their training.