the sumerians
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Understanding the People of the Biblical World
One of God’s “Rosetta Stones”
for Understanding God’s Word
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d An Oversimplified Timeline of the Bible
(+ or - 100 years)
2000 BC
Abraham
1500 BC
Moses
1000 BC
David
500 BC
Babylonian Captivity
4 BC
Birth of Jesus
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d The Call of Abram – Gen. 121 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from
your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
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d The Call of Abram – Gen. 12
3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
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The Sumeri
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Ur of the
Chaldees
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d The Sumerian
City-States•Sippar•Kish•Nippur• Isin•Uruk
•Ur•Eridu•Umma•Larsa
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d Ziggurat of Nanna in Ur
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The Sumeri
an Religio
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The Sumeri
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d Why did God call Abraham, a Sumerian?
1.The Sumerians were the first to develop writing.
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Cuneiform
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d Reading and writing in
cuneiform were difficult because the Sumerian
alphabet consisted of about 550 characters.
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First Printi
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d Why did God call Abraham, a Sumerian?
2.The Sumerians were the first to develop a system of numbers.
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d A Better System?
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Our clock is sexagecimal
! Notice how every 5 minutes is 30 degrees
of a 360 degree circle.
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d Why did God call Abraham, a Sumerian?3.The Sumerians were the first to develop a calendar.
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d First Lunar Calendar•The Sumerian Calendar was a 354 day lunar calendar.•Like the Hebrew calendar, it was corrected with a “leap month”
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d Why did God call Abraham, a Sumerian?4.The Sumerians were the first to develop metallurgy, the science of metals.
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d The Bronze Age
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d An Ancient Mystery Solved
Ancient Sumeria was the first oil-based
economy!
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d Why did God call Abraham, a Sumerian?5.The Sumerians developed the first “legal system,” the code of Hammurabi.
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d The Code of Hammurabi
•The law was based on retribution and was severe.•The law was administered by a central authority.
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•The law was written. This made the law consistent.•Hammurabi’s code gave some protection to the “weak.”
The Code of Hammurabi
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d Why did God call Abraham, a Sumerian?6.The Sumerians were highly advanced in medicine.
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d God’s Purpose•It was God’s purpose to chose a people and reveal his law to them.•This required a literate people capable of reading letters and numbers.•This required a people with a concept of laws and justice.
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God’s Purpose•It was God’s purpose to reveal future prophetic truths in order to reveal His redemptive plan.•This required a people with an ability to mark time.
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d •It was God’s purpose to reveal future prophetic truths in order to reveal His redemptive plan.•This also required a people with an understanding of astronomical “signs” since God would at times reveal important events in this way.
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d Abraham’s Sacrifice•In leaving Ur and going into Canaan, Abraham left behind all the advantages of life in Sumeria.
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d Abraham’s Sacrifice•God required a man who would be willing to sacrifice comfort and personal goals, in order to become the father of His chosen people.•Abraham was such a man.
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Our Call to Sacrifice
What are some of the “advantages” that God is calling us to “leave” as followers of
Jesus?
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d Our Call to Bring it Forward
What are some of the experiences and training from your life before following God
that He is using now to bless His people?
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Other people we need to know:
• Egyptians
• Canaanites
• Philistines
• Assyrians
•Babylonians
•Persians
•Greeks
• Romans