Old Testament Warriors

The Ancients

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🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It’s probably the most famous book in the world, and it’s also essentially the only literary source which covers the genesis of warfare and the nation state. Simon Elliott is an archaeologist, historian and broadcaster. He came onto the podcast to talk to Tristan about 7,500 years of history - in under an hour. Using the Bible as a jumping off point, Simon takes us through the technological developments and innovation of warfare, bringing in other archaeological findings to support the singular perspective of the bible. This episode runs through the first walled settlement at Jericho, the first battle chariots and the development of different strategies. This truly is a who’s who of the Ancients, including the Assyrians, Babylonians, Sumerians, Akkadians, Egyptians of all kingdoms, Hittites, Sea Peoples, Philistines and Hebrews.

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0:00.0	It's the ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and today's podcast is a whirlwind
0:09.6	because we are aiming to cover almost 7,000 years of ancient history.
0:16.2	Because today's topic is Old Testament Warriors. We are looking at the militaries of some
0:22.0	of those civilizations that are mentioned in the Old Testament and that we know thrived
0:27.2	in some cases thousands, in other cases hundreds of years before the birth of Christ or the
0:32.9	start of the common era, whatever takes your fancy. So we are talking the Sumerians,
0:37.8	we are talking the Assyrians, we are talking the Babylonians, we are talking the Hitites,
0:42.4	we are talking the Canaanites, we are talking the Hebrew tribes, we are talking the Egyptians
0:46.8	and even the Sea Peoples, they even get a mention too. So this is a huge topic and I was
0:52.4	delighted to get on the show, my good old friend and the one and only Simon Elliott. Simon
0:57.6	is primarily a Roman historian but in one of his most recent books he's gone a bit further
1:02.9	back in ancient history to study this period in ancient history where the Old Testament
1:07.8	is one of our main literary sources. So it was great to get on the show to talk about
1:12.6	the military of these societies. Word of morning, chariots feature heavily, his Simon.
1:22.4	Simon Elliott, lovely to have you on the show. Tristan it's amazing to be back on history,
1:30.8	I love working with you guys as you know, thank you so much for having me back. No problem,
1:35.7	whatsoever. And today we are talking something slightly different to ancient Roman Greece,
1:42.0	Old Testament warriors. Now Simon, this is a vast topic geographically and chronologically.
1:48.8	It's a huge topic, well if you think about it, I mean you're talking about the entirety
1:52.8	of prehistory into the history of conflict and warfare. So the parameters I put on the way
1:57.2	that I put the book together are from around 9,000, 8,500 BC all through to the onset of the
2:03.6	classical world when the Persians overthrow the Medes. So you're talking about 550 BC. So it's
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