Word: xxxvi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assyrian Room. Of casts we find the Babylonian code of Laws, promulgated nearly a thousand years before Moses, by Hammurabi (the Amraphel of Genesis XIV); Jehu, King of Israel (2 KI, IX); bowing in submission to an Assyrian conqueror; Sennacherib on his fateful Palestinian campaign (2 Kl, XVIII; Isa, XXXVI); the Assyrian story of the Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian war scenes and practices, hunting scenes of Assumbanipal...