History · 19 · Solomon and Sheba

Babylonia was 'always one kingdom'

Scholar Thorkild Jacobsen showed the Sumerian King List assumed Babylonia had always been a single kingdom, with only one king at a time.

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Judges and Kings similarly arrange rulers in a line, though many reigned simultaneously.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 308–309

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