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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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It represents developed administration. First of all, because the storages of about the same volume, the same quantity -- they are standardized. And secondly, the seal impressions too are standardized. So what you have here is evidence of some sort of [Assyrian] state administration. A person, you know, a family, just somebody out there in the village, doesn't do things like that. So all the evidence fall together to the same conclusion: FULL-BLOWN [VASSAL] STATE IN JUDAH FOR THE FIRST TIME in the late 8th Century. [Narrator] This new state of affairs would modify the geopolitical landscape of the region.
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