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Excerpt from Assyria From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Nineveh Th! Following history of Assyria is designed to give some of the results attained from the translations of the Cuneiform in scriptions, which contain the records of the Assyrian empire. Prominence has been given to the incidents of the period when Assyria came in contact with Palestine, and the bearing of some of these is pointed out; but it is rather intended that the reader should compare for himself the history here given from the Assy rian with the parallel account of the Books of Kings. Beside the direct account of persons and events given in the Bible, there is a mass of evidence and illustration on manners and customs, lan guage and literature, tending to throw light on the earlier books of the Bible, which renders the study of Assyrian so important and desirable. An examination of the dates in this history will show that many of them do not agree with the authorized system of chronology in the margins of the Bible. Here I must note that, although there is a striking agreement in the order and substance of the events mentioned in both histories, there sometimes appears to be cousi derable difference as to the dates. As this is an Assyrian history, I have taken the dates as they appear to stand in the Assyrian re cords; but it must be remembered that many of the Assyrian chro nological documents are mutilated and incomplete, and that the Assyrians are not always correct in the statements of their histories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.