Assyriologist · Junior Research Fellow @ChCh_Oxford · Former Research Associate at @Tyndale_House · Opinions my own
Cambridge, England
Joined March 2018
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The online Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary just dropped! Including over 1000 entries that you won't find in CAD or AHw!
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Huge congratulations to Caleb on this monumental book. There ain't no one on the planet who knows Ashurnasirpal's standard inscription better than this guy. (Of course, Caleb won't see this, because he hates both praise and social media)
Without wishing to get involved in this much broader discussion, there are certainly cases that can be made for both sides on the presentation of Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, and Darius in Daniel, but no discovery has falsified these aspects of the narrative.
I’ve already explained this you. Archaeology pretty firmly precludes the entire primeval history, which you claimed didn’t count. Multiple discoveries, including inscriptions, falsify the narrative of Daniel related to Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar & Darius. You didn’t respond.
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Seriously? Christmas cards in cuneiform?
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“It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon. … The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.” —Chesterton
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Socrates, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, and Hillel the Elder left no writings of their own. The best teachers produce students who so thoroughly internalize their words and teachings that they can be entrusted with their transmission to the next generations.
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I must be getting old. Has it really been 25 years since the fall of the Median empire?
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Thrilled to be shortlisted for the Wolfson history prize! Writing accessibly about history has always mattered to me, and it's an honour for Mesopotamia to be recognised in this way. I hope it gets more people into the subject. Congrats to all the other authors too!
We're thrilled to announce the 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlist, showcasing six exceptional books that explore how societies navigate periods of seismic change.
📕'The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief' by Richard Holmes (@wmcollinsbooks)
📕 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' by Sadiah Qureshi (@AllenLaneBooks)
📕 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War' by Lyndal Roper (@BasicBooksUK)
📕'Liverpool: A Story of Britain' by @samwetherell (@HoZ_Books)
📕'The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History' by @lswisnom (@AllenLaneBooks)
📕'Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples' by @drfrancisyoung (@cambridgeup)
Congratulations to all the authors! 👏📚
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Significant new study out next month by Caleb Howard of @Tyndale_House on how exactly Assyrian palace propaganda was produced.
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Today we wrote dedications on the steel frame of Cambridge’s most exciting new building, the UK’s largest library of the Bible. These will be invisible in the completed building. @tyndale_house
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My therapist says I should stop thinking about it as the Synoptic Problem and instead see it as a Synoptic Opportunity.
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The Taylor Prism was found by Robert Taylor in the early 1800s and sheds great light on the world in which the biblical events took place.
Sennacherib’s inscription aligns with 2 Kings, Isaiah, and 2 Chronicles, offering historical evidence for the Old Testament record.
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Let’s not forget that even if England win against Norway on Saturday they will then immediately have to march 200 miles south and play France without so much as a hydration break
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Catastrophic news from Exeter, on the heels of Dundee and Nottingham. The UK gov't and devolved governments need to urgently get a grip: the sums involved are not enormous, but damage to the university system will soon be irreparable. 1/2 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2d…
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Today the steel frame for the UK’s largest library of the Bible started going up.
Come visit @tyndale_house in Cambridge.
Forget the English! Akkadian Cuneiform was largely deciphered by the Church of Ireland Rector Edward Hincks (1792-1866), who was also an able Egyptologist.
The nineteenth century Anglican Church was basically UBI for clever Anglos. It turns out that, given a comfortable standard of living and an undemanding job as a vicar, the English mostly end up translating Akkadian cuneiform or developing a theory of natural selection.
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