Indeed we can almost fix the date to which the lifetime of Nimrod must be assigned. We are told that out of his kingdom "one went forth into Assyria," and there "builded" Nineveh and Calah, The cuneiform inscriptions have informed us who this builder of Calah was. He was Shalmaneser I., who was also the restorer of Nineveh and its temples, and who is stated by Sennacherib to have reigned six hundred years before himself. Such a date would coincide with the reign of Ramses II., the Pharaoh of the Oppression, as well as with the birth-time of Moses. It represents a period when the influence of Babylonia had not yet passed away from Canaan, and when there was still intercourse between the East and the West. Ramses claims to have overcome both Assyria and Shinar, and though the Shinar he means was the Shinar of Mesopotamia and not Chaldæa, it lay within the limits of Babylonian control. The reign of Ramses II. is the latest period down to which, with our present knowledge, we can regard the old influence of Babylonia in Canaan as still continuing, and it is equally the period to which, if we are to listen to the traditional teaching of the Church, the writer of the Pentateuch belonged. The voice of archaeology is thus in agreement with that of authority, and here as elsewhere true science declares herself the handmaid of the Catholic Church. INDEX Â (deity), 256 Abel (place), 153 Abel-mizraim, 201 Abiliya, 126 Abimelech, 123, 127, 128, 129 Abram (in Babylonian), 169 Achshaph or Ekdippa, 211, 219, 229 Acre (Akku), 134, 154, 155, 157, 229, 235 Adai, 142 Adami, 219, 228 Adapa or Adama, 265 Addar, 153 Adon, 131 Adoni-zedek, 75 Adullam, 212, 221 Ahitub, 154 Ahmes I., 88, 94 Aia, 207 Ajalon, 137, 142 Akizzi, 131 Akkad, 55 Alasiya, 67, 107, 157, 223 'Aluna or 'Arna, 97, 228 Amalekites, 26, 35, 40, 41, 53 Amanus, 62, 107 Amber, 85, 242 Amenôphis II., 106, 110 Amenôphis III., 111, 112, 135 Amenôphis IV. or Khu-n-Aten, 71, 86, 112 _et seq._ Ammi, 22, 64, 206 Ammi-anshi, 63, 206 Ammi-satana, 63 Ammiya, 131 Ammon, 22, 36, 38, 64, 179 Ammunira, 124 Amon (god), 87, 99, 110, 114 Amon-apt, 128, 152 Amorites, 28, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 _et seq._, 56, 58, 65, 100, 110, 112, 119, 124 _et seq._, 152, 160, 163, 186, 239 Amorites, god of, 257 Amraphel, 64, 66, 67 Anab, 221 Anaharath, 229 Anakim, 36, 37 Anat, 82, 232, 257 Anu, 82, 169, 257, 259, 260 Anugas or Nukhasse, 98, 102, 107, 110 Aphekah, 239 Apphadana, 111 Aqabah, Gulf of, 26, 108 Aram-Naharaim (Mitanni), 72, 85, 86, 94, 101, 103, 108, 111, 131, 138, 149, 157, 163 Ararat, 46 Argob, 23 _Ariel_, 213 Arioch (_see_ Eri-Aku), 63, 168 Arisu, 162 Arka, 26, 52, 128, 131 Article, definite, 248 Arvad, 52, 85, 100, 106, 129 Arzai, 143 Asher, 219 Ashêrah, 191, 255 Ashiti-Khaur, 260 Ashkelon, 141, 150, 160, 236 Ashtaroth-Karnaim, 35, 36, 133, 153, 161, 228 Ashtoreth, 168, 253 _et seq._, 264 Asphalt, 70 Assyria, 99, 105, 153, 155, 157 Aten-Ra, 113