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Also Known As: Nga-shur (Asshur) (Assyr)
decendants---Assyrians
The founder of the nation to whom he gave his name, to wit Assyria. It may be possible to ide ntify Asshur in the early king-lists of Assyria as Puzur-Asshur I. According to these lists, Puzur-Asshur I would have lived and reigned c. 1960 BC, which accords rather well with the biblical chronology.
Asshur was one of the earliest men to be deified and worshipped by his descendants. Indeed, a s long as Assyria lasted, that is until 612 BC, accounts of battles, exploits, diplomatic affairs and foreign bulletins were daily read out to his image; and every Assyrian king held that he wore the crown only with the express permission of Asshur's deified ghost. On an even more fanciful level, in Jewish rabbinical literature he is said to have been the only righteous man in the days of the building of Babel, moving away when he learned the sinful nature of the enterprise. But this is so unlikely, and is at such variance with the vary nature of even his earliest descendants that it can be safely dismissed.
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Assyria
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the earliest historical times, the term Assyria referred to a region on the Upper Tigris r iver, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur. Later, as a nation and empire that came to control all of the Fertile Crescent, Egypt and much of Anatolia , the term "Assyria proper" referred to roughly the northern half of Mesopotamia (the southern half being Babylonia ), with Nineveh as its capital.
The Assyrian homeland was located near a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as fa r as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, sometimes known as the "Mountains of Ashur".
Sources:
Title: The Holy Bbible
Genesis. 10 : 22 Chronicles 1:17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and L ud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Title: Navigating the Bible Publication: Asshur So n of Shem and grandson of Noah. The eponymous ancestor of the Assyrians.
Title: Antiquities of the Jews Author: Flavius Josephus Publication: http://www.interhack.net /projects/library/antiquities-jews Book I, Chapter 6 4. Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean....Ashur lived at the city Nineve; and named his subjects Assyrians, who became the most fortunate nation, beyond others.
Title: Genesis According to the Miao People Publication: Translated by Edgar A. Truax
Title: Web sites Page: Bible Believers -- Asshur He is the ancestor of the Assyrians.
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