Covenant revealed to Abraham;

Commandments “revealed” to

Moses(ancient

Mesopotamia)

c. Egyptian gods “revealed” to scribes and Pharoahs

Nile River Valley(Ancient Egypt)

c. 3000 BCE

The Vedas “revealed” to early Hindu

prophetsHarappan/Vedic(ancient India)

Theogony “revealed” to Hesiod

(Ancient Greece)

Revelations and Prophecies Roughly 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE

Zoroastrianism “revealed” to Zarathustra

(ancient Mesopotamia)

Empires: Akkadian, Sumerian, Babylonian

2334 BCE – 1750 BCE

• Sargon of Akkad – 2300 BCE - controls city states of Kish, Lagash, Ur, Uruk, Umma, Agade & Babylon. Declines after 200 years – internal fighting

• “Sumerian Renaissance” – 2120 bce – 2000 BCE

• Babylonian Empire – 2000 BC – 1750 BC

• Had laws and judgments ‘set in stone’“…an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

• Not equally applied to all citizens – rich and poor, men and women

• Established & reinforced principle that government was responsible for the citizens of its land.

Memphis

Thebes

Lower Egypt

Upper Egypt

Predynastic PeriodEarly Dynastic/Old Kingdom

Herakleopolis

First Intermediate Period

Nome

Nomarch

A person’s “ba” leaving the body