Many people groups features prominently in the Bible: Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Greeks, Israelites, Persians, Romans and many others. Start your exploration of biblical cultures here!
Browse the Bible a while, and you may encounter the Assyrians. A proud, nation-crushing people, who devoured Israel in 722 BC like an after-dinner mint. So who were the Assyrians? Where did they hail from? What were their cultural distinctives? And how did their civilization come to ruin?
The whole temple operation was centred on relationship. When Jesus visited Herod’s temple and saw this purpose being neglected, he assembled a whip, and enacted one of the most dramatic episodes of his ministry.