Looking for Jesus according to Matthew

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Mesopotamian Education 11)​

The student's life in pursuing this goal, however, was not an easy one. The satirical poem Schooldays describes this life which included rising early and getting to school on time, the work involved, and the daily beatings the student might expect for infractions of rules, including talking in class, leaving the grounds without permission, tardiness, rising from one's seat without permission, or failing to produce clean copy (not having a "good hand"), among others. A Supervisor's Advice to a Young Scribe is another satirical work on student life in which the young scribe is depicted as essentially the slave of his teacher until graduation.

- Rising early!

- Getting to school on time!

- Daily beatings for infractions of rules (talking in class, leaving the grounds without permission, tardiness, rising from one's seat without permission, or failing to produce clean copy…)!

 

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Scribal Jobs & Works​

Once graduated, however, the scribe was recognized as an elite member of society, known as a dub.sar ("tablet writer") in Sumerian and a tupshar (or tupsharru) in Akkadian. There was no lack of opportunity for a scribe as work was guaranteed at every level of society. Scribes were employed by the palace for administrative and diplomatic work as well as for the composition of songs, hymns, and inscriptions praising the king and recording his accomplishments. The temple employed scribes in administration and copying of sacred texts, and businesses employed scribes to keep their accounts and carry on correspondence with suppliers and customers.

Aside from these opportunities, scribes worked as architects, in construction, as engineers, astronomers and astrologers, brewers, doctors, dentists, surveyors, mathematicians, musicians, or any other career requiring literacy and a high degree of education. Scribes could also work for themselves as freelance writers in service to anyone who paid them for their work. A scribe could be hired by anyone who needed a letter or legal complaint written.

- The scribe was recognized as an elite member of society!

- There were plenty of work opportunities!

 

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Mesopotamian Education 13)​

Scribes in ancient Mesopotamia created some of the most important works in world literature, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Descent of Inanna, and established genres still in use today as exemplified by The Instructions of Shuruppag (the oldest extant philosophical work), the Kesh Temple Hymn (the oldest extant work of literature, c. 2600 BCE), literary dialogues such as The Debate Between Bird and Fish, social commentaries like the Poor Man of Nippur and the Dialogue of Pessimism, dramatic monologues like The Home of the Fish, didactic works such as Inanna and Su-kale-tuda, and hymns like Shulgi and Ninlil's Barge or Hymn to Ninkasi which is both praise song and a recipe for brewing beer. These scribes are also credited with creating the world's first historical fiction through the genre known as Mesopotamian naru literature and setting down the first laws such as the Code of Ur-Nammu and the Code of Hammurabi.

 

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Conclusion​

The Akkadian priestess-poet Enheduanna (l. 2285-2250 BCE), the first author in the world known by name, learned her craft in the Mesopotamian scribal school, as did the Babylonian scribe Shin-Leqi-Unninni (wrote 1300-1000 BCE), who drew on earlier Sumerian poems to craft the standard version of The Epic of Gilgamesh. The names of most scribes, however, are unknown as their pieces would be defined today as work-made-for-hire, commissioned by their employer for a given purpose, not for self-expression, and attributed to the person who paid for it or published anonymously.

These nameless scribes, however, were ultimately responsible for the preservation of Mesopotamian languages, religion, and culture, and there were two famous monarchs – Shulgi of Ur (r. 2029-1982 BCE) of the Ur III Dynasty and Ashurbanipal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire – who understood this clearly. Shulgi of Ur not only encouraged the establishment of scribal schools throughout his kingdom but commissioned works for the express purpose of immortalizing his reign. Ashurbanipal sent delegations throughout Mesopotamia to bring back written works for the permanent collection of his library to preserve the culture "for distant days" – which, in fact, he succeeded in doing – and this was only possible due to the establishment and development of the Mesopotamian scribal school.

 

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Garee said:

Which religion of who?

The religion of lying signs and wonder as if true prophecy?

The Holy Father In James puts his stamp of approval on his own religious belief system Believers were without our heavenly Father as widows not married to Christ.

James 1:27;Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The religion of the special care of the household of faith (the non-visible eternal things of God .

Eohsians 2:19;Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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My answer:

- According to the Bible, the majority of mankind was destroyed except Noah and his family!

- According to the Bible, only two Hebrews got into the promised land, the rest died in the desert!

- According to the Bible, Jerusalem was destroyed twice and many died or became slaves or were sent into exile!

- Think about Revelation 13:16,17:

The Mark of the Beast

16 And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.

- Think about revelation 19:1,2:

1 After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting:

“Hallelujah!

Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!

2 For His judgments are true and just.

He has judged the great prostitute

who corrupted the earth with her immorality.

- We are told about the earth!

- Think about the 1,000 years!

- Revelation 20:7:

7 When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.

- We are told about people who are like the sand of the seashore!

- Now when you look at the history of religion, what do we learn?

- We look at the flood and the survival of Noah and his family!

- Then what is next? (Genesis chapter 10:6-12)

- We get the son of Noah, Ham!

- One of his sons was Cush!

- One of Cush's sons was Nimrod!

- Only two generations after the flood and here is Nimrod!

- And Nimrod built many cities and in particular Babel, Accad and Niniveh!

- It was the beginning of human civilization!

- And they developed religion, astrology and astronomy!

- Each city has its own god!

- Everything was organized around religion!

- And in fact it was the same structure as before the flood, religion made by demons who wanted to control men according to their own will!

- Then each civilization took the beliefs of the preceding civilization and adapted them till today!

- The Hebrews were warned by Yah.weh but they didn't listen!

- They mixed their religion with other religions!

- They were destroyed!

- Human history is just a mere repetition!