Did Zeus or Yahweh destroy Nineveh?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:46 pm
In Xenophon, Nineveh was taken because Zeus terrified the inhabitants with thunder, but in the Bible, Yahweh did itXenophon, Anabasis 3.4
To this city also the king of the Persians laid siege, but he was unable to capture it either by length of siege or by storm; Zeus, however, terrified the inhabitants with thunder, and thus the city (Mespila) was taken.
Zepheniah 2:13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness
Josephus claims Sodom was destroyed by thunder.Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews 5.562
Destroyed by such thunder (κεραυνούς) as the country of Sodom
Sodom (סדם) = ἡ Σκυθική (ἄστυ) = The Scythian (town)
Gen 19:26 "wife looked back" (ἐπέβλεψεν ἡ γυνὴ)Nahum 2:8
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back (οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἐπιβλέπων)