DQ3:

DQ3: What is the significance of the destruction layer in an excavation mound?

The significance of the destruction layer in an excavation mound is that this will help the people to search and study the old time history. The deeper they dig; the more they can discover many things that can prove to a certain time and era. 

The development of excavation techniques has moved over the years from a treasure hunting process to one which seeks to fully understand the sequence of human activity on a given site and that site’s relationship with other sites and with the landscape in which it is set.

The goals of archaeology are to document and explain the origins and development of human culture, understand culture history, chronicle cultural evolution, and study human behavior and ecology, for both prehistoric and historic societies.Archaeological excavation existed even when the field was still the domain of amateurs, and it remains the source of the majority of data recovered in most field projects. It can reveal several types of information usually not accessible to survey, such as stratigraphy, three-dimensional structure, and verifiably primary context. 

Modern excavation techniques require that the precise locations of objects and features, known as their provenance or provenience, be recorded. Similarly, their association, or relationship with nearby objects and features, needs to be recorded for later analysis. This allows the archaeologist to deduce what artefacts and features were likely used together and which may be from different phases of activity. For example, excavation of a site reveals its stratigraphy; if a site was occupied by a succession of distinct cultures, artefacts from more recent cultures will lie above those from more ancient cultures.

Devotional

Trust and Obedience

Genesis 12:1-3

 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

 As the Lord said to Abraham that he will leave his country and go to the land that he will lead to. Abraham obeyed God without any question like why and where. Even though Abraham didn’t know where to go, he still followed and obeyed God. And because of that God blessed Abraham more and more. In my life today, God reminded me once again to trust on Him alone, to lean on Him alone without any doubt. Even though I don’t know where God will lead me, I trust in Him that He will surely help me in every of my circumstances. If we are willing to follow and obey God, we can sacrifice anything that we have for His glory, like if I will go to my mission field soon. I know its not easy but, I will do this for God. I’m willing and ready to sacrifice everything for God alone. I need to put my whole trust in God and be obedience to all of His “call”. God will lead us and help us wherever we will go.

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DQ2:

Explain why God confused the people at Babel by changing their languages. 

The people of Babel 

God has confused the people of Babel because the people built a city with a tower that reaches to heaven. And they want to make their own names from it, and so that they will not be scattered through all the earth. They want to stay where they are, to be one, and to be one nation.

 

And that if the people will speak will only their own one the same language, and if they are only one nation, then all things that they will plan to do will be possible to them. Then maybe they will not seek for God’s help any more, but they will do all their works by their own selves.

 

And God confused their languages because their plan is not according to God’s plan and purpose anymore.

 

And it was then called Babel because there the Lord had confused the language of the people of the whole earth.

 

From that time that God confused their language, all the people were scattered abroad and lived in different places.

 

OT151: DEVOTIONAL

THE CREATION OF MANKIND! 

Genesis 2:7

The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into His nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. NIV

Genesis 1: 27

So God created man in His own image, in the mage of God he created them; male and female he created them. NIV  

So God created man in his own image, the origin of human being is from the dust. God created man from the dust, and gave him life through his power.  And not came from the monkey as the scientists are always said that man came from the monkey, and then because of evolution, the monkey became man. But for me, i surely believed that man was created by God. It’s up to you if you believe in your self that you came from the monkey, it’s your choice.

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OT 151 DQ1

Question: Describe the Ancient Near East during the 3^rd Millennium

 

Answer:

 

MESOPOTAMIA IN THE EARLIEST PERIOD

The classical Sumerian Age

History shows that the Sumerian Civilization is fixed in classical form. The land and the temple were organized into a system of city-states. The city-state was a theocracy ruled by the god. The people were the god’s retainers and workers. The king is the earthly head of state, and the priest is the god representative to ruled the local temple, they are the manager of his state.

Religion of the Sumerians

Sumerian religion was highly developed polytheism. The cults of the various gods were carried on in the cities. The order of the god’s was conceived as a heavenly state on the pattern of a city of assembly. A power struggle on earth was also a legal process in the state of the god’s. The function of the cults is to serve the gods, propitiate their wrath and maintain peace and stability.

In the case of paganism, the Sumerian had a developed sense of right and wrong. The Sumerian drew little distinction between moral and purely ritual offenses.

Semites in the Mesopotamia: the Akkadians

Semites who lived in Mesopotamia are called Akkadians. These Semites took over Sumerian culture in its entire essential and adopted it to themselves. They also adopted the Sumerian pantheon and added some other gods of their own and applied Semitic names to others.

The Empire of Akkad

The kings of Akkad ruled all upper Mesopotamia. Akkad gave to Sumerian culture a political expression far beyond the bounds of the city-state. The power of Akkad was of brief duration, it lasted for over a hundred years.

EGYPT AND WESTERN ASIA IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

The old Kingdom

The foundations of the old kingdom were lad in the Pharaohs of the first and second Dynasties, the significant features of the culture has assumed a form to be normative.

 Religion in Egypt

Eyptian religion was highly developed polytheism. It presents a most confusing picture. In spite of various attempts in earliest times at systematization, no orderly pantheon or consistent cosmogony was ever developed. Fluidity of thought was thoroughly characteristic of the Egyptian mind. The high gods of the Egypt were not local gods, but were honored all over the land and accorded cosmic dominion.

References:

History of Israel

Third Edition

John Bright