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What Now?
•Place
•Period (era)
•People
The story of how one English teacher
changed her world
The Wonderful World of the Old
Testament
The Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Syria-Palestine
Nile Delta (Egypt)
The Wonderful World of the Old
Testament
The Fertile Crescent
MesopotamiaEastern end of the
crescent, lies between the Tigris
and Euphrates
Mesopotamian Cultures
SumeriansFirst significant civilization in
human history (3000 BC)
Cuneiform (wedge-shaped writing)
Mesopotamian Cultures
AkkadiansLeadership of
Sargon the Great
(2300 BC)
Mesopotamian Cultures
AmoritesMesopotamia and
Syria-Palestine
(1800 BC)
Mesopotamian Cultures
HittitesCentral part of
Asia Minor
(2000 - 1700 BC)
Mesopotamian Cultures
AssyriansNorthern
MesopotamiaCapital City: Nineveh
Captured Northern Kingdom of Israel
(8th & 7th centuries BC)
Mesopotamian Cultures
BabyloniansSouthern
MesopotamiaCapital City: Babylon
Took the Jews into exile in 587 BC
(7th – 6th centuries BC)
Mesopotamian Cultures
PersiansLast Mesopotamian power of OT times
(6th – 4th centuries BC)335 BC – conquered by
Alexander the Great
Syria-Palestine Cultures
CanaanitesPrimary
inhabitants of Palestine
(3000 BC onward)
Syria-Palestine Cultures
PhilistinesPrimary
inhabitants of the coastal plainPentapolis
(1200 - 1000 BC)
Syria-Palestine Cultures
•Phoenicians•Arameans•Ammonites•Moabites•Edomites•Midianites•Amalekites
Nile Delta - Egypt
•Old Kingdom (2900 - 2300 BC)
•Middle Kingdom (2100 - 1710 BC)
New Kingdom (1550 - 330 BC)
Geography of Palestine
•Coastal Plain (Lebanon to Gaza)
•Central Hill Country (Galilee to Negev) (Galilee, Samaria, Judah)
•Jordan Valley (Sea of Galilee to Dead Sea)
•Plateau of Transjordan (Bashan to
Gilead)
Read Chapter 4, Textbook Israel Looks at Beginnings: Genesis (pp. 63-77)
Read Genesis 1-11 in your Bible (pp. 5-26)
