Chapter 45 Prominent Race—Jewish

After a long life in exile in Assyria and Babylon, the Jews really realized what they had done before and what they should do in the future.Far from their homes, scattered among the villages and towns scattered across the plains of Mesopotamia, they began to study the ancient laws and early chronicles of their people, which in due course restored them to a more sincere relationship with the Lord. and devout faith. The new rulers of the Jews belonged to a very distinguished race.Long before Hammurabi Hammurabi: The Great Coder Who Predated Moses and His Ten Commandments by a Thousand Years - Author's Note.During the period, the Babylonians were recognized as the most civilized people on the West Asia Plain.

The capital of the vast Babylonian empire was a fortified fortress.A two-story high wall protects the houses, streets, gardens, temples and markets within the walls, which occupy an area of ​​about one million square kilometers. The layout of the city is very standardized, with straight and wide streets. The houses are all made of bricks and are very spacious. Some houses are as high as two or three stories. The Euphrates River flows right through the center of the city, and its downstream can reach the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. In the heart of the city, on a low artificial hill, stands the famous Nebuchadnezzar Palace.

Because there are many steps, it gives people the impression of a large garden suspended in mid-air, and enjoys the reputation of mysterious hanging garden. This city, like New York today, was an international metropolis at the time. Refers to New York in the 1920s. . Babylonian merchants were very shrewd and capable, and they did business in Egypt and as far away as China.The Babylonians invented a system of writing, which was improved by the Phoenicians, and it is the entire alphabet we use every day today.They are also very good at math.It was they who first proposed the concept of the science of astronomy, and divided the year into months, and from the months into weeks, just like we do today.They also devised the system of weights and measures that even modern commerce is still based on.

Babylon was the first to formulate the moral law that Moses later incorporated into the Ten Commandments, which is the foundation upon which the modern church is built. The Babylonians were very organized and steady in expanding their territories deliberately, but their conquest of the land of Judah was an accident that made no sense to their expansion strategy. It happened during the conquest of Syria and Egypt by the rulers of Babylon, a small independent country - Judah, which happened to be on the main road of traffic from south to north and east to west! Conquest is a purely military necessity.

Nothing else. We have great doubts as to whether the Babylonians of Nebuchadnezzar's time were really aware of the presence of the Jews, they probably viewed the Jews as we view the Pueblo Indians Indians (Pueblo Indians) Indians living in the southwestern United States - Annotation.Same.Like we know there's an indigenous people living somewhere in the American Southwest, living a kind of semi-independent life, but we don't know exactly where, and we don't really care much, and it's taken for granted that the Bureau of Indian Affairs or The Department of Home Affairs takes Aboriginal needs into account.Because our life is full of all kinds of things, we are only busy with our own things every day, and we will not be happy for a little girl who has no other meaning to us except the name and a few fragments of religious dances in memory. Small minorities and bother.

You have to keep this attitude of the Babylonians clearly in your head, because it helps you understand what happened to the Jews next. There was nothing early on to suggest that the descendants of Abraham and Isaac would eventually play important roles in human history. The earliest authors of world history said nothing about the Jews, such as Herodotus Herodotus (Herodotus), an ancient Greek historian, known as the "Father of History", whose book "History" (that is, "Greek-Persian Wars") "History") is the first historical work in the West—annotation. , he tried to make the Great Flood Great Flood: the Great Flood of Greece, rather than the Great Flood about Noah's Ark in ancient Babylonian mythology.Everything that happened afterwards has a solid account.Like most Athenians, he was tolerant and inquisitive, wanting to know and write down everything important that those around him had said, thought or done.

Herodotus was free from racial prejudice, and he traveled widely in order to have first-hand knowledge.He tells us important facts about the Egyptians, Babylonians, and many other peoples who lived around the Mediterranean Sea; For a strange but reliable race of practical experience. The Chaldeans, who were contemporaries of these Jews in exile, saw them as we see today a small band of desolate Russians or Armenians, passing through our small town to an unknown destination in the west the same. So, only the Old Testament is left as our main source of information about the Jews.