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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
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Identified with Ashurbanipal, the last powerful king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, who resettled conquered peoples in Samaria. The opponents of the Jews name him in their letter asking the Persian king to stop Jerusalem being rebuilt. His library at Nineveh held thousands of tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh among them.
Identified with Ashurbanipal, the last powerful king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, who resettled conquered peoples in Samaria. The opponents of the Jews name him in their letter asking the Persian king to stop Jerusalem being rebuilt. His library at Nineveh held thousands of tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh among them.
Identified with Ashurbanipal, the last powerful king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, who resettled conquered peoples in Samaria after putting down rebellions in his territory. Opponents of the Jews cite him by this name in a letter urging the Persian king to stop the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Ezra 4:10). Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh, which held thousands of cuneiform tablets including the Epic of Gilgamesh, is now one of the richest surviving windows into the ancient Near East and is held largely in the British Museum.
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- Ezra 4:10
