Background
Robert William Rogers was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Dr. Samuel and Mary (Osborne) Rogers. Irish and Welsh strains mingled in his ancestry, but the Irish, of which he was most proud, dominated.
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A History of Babylonia and Assyria, Vol. 2: The History of Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea (Classic Reprint)
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The History of the Chaldean Empire
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This is a history of one of the oldest empires in antiquity. From the first chapter: "WHEN Asshurbanapal died, in 626, he left, as we have already seen, an empire sadly weakened and far departed from its ancient glory. He had, in. deed, held together the main body of it, but the outer provinces had mostly fallen away. He had left in the world many enemies of Assyria and sadly few friends. He had held Babylonia to the empire after displaying such fierceness in the punishment of its rebels as made them unable to rise again during his lifetime. Up to his death he reigned as king in Assyria under the name of Asshurbanapal, and in Babylon as Kandalanu.380 The hour of his death was the signal for the preparation of a new revolt in Babylonia. This was inevitable. The Babylonians had hated Assyrian rule since the conciliatory policy of Esarhaddon had ceased, and were ready for any attempt which might promise to restore to them the prestige they once possessed and to their city the primacy of the world. To achieve such marvels of history there was no further strength in themselves. We have seen long since the decay of the real Babylonian people, who had early ceased to be Semites of pure blood. But the very intermixing of other fresh blood had kept them alive as an entity, though it had almost entirely destroyed their identity. The reinforcement of life which came to them from the Kassites had kept awake in them a national separateness, when without it they would almost certainly have been swallowed up and lost, as other peoples had been before them. They were, however, steadily decaying and diminishing, and could only be kept further alive by a new influx of fresh blood from some source. The Assyrian kings had repeatedly settled colonists in various parts of Babylonia, from the days of Tiglathpileser III onward. These lost their national identity and became Babylonians to all intents and purposes."
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The History of Assyria
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“I fought daily, without interruption against Taharqa, King of Egypt and Ethiopia, the one accursed by all the great gods. Five times I hit him with the point of my arrows inflicting wounds from which he should not recover, and then I laid siege to Memphis his royal residence, and conquered it in half a day by means of mines, breaches and assault ladders.” - Esarhaddon “I captured 46 towns...by consolidating ramps to bring up battering rams, by infantry attacks, mines, breaches and siege engines.” - Sennacherib When scholars study the history of the ancient Near East, several wars that had extremely brutal consequences (at least by modern standards) often stand out. Forced removal of entire populations, sieges that decimated entire cities, and wanton destruction of property were all tactics used by the various peoples of the ancient Near East against each other, but the Assyrians were the first people to make war a science. When the Assyrians are mentioned, images of war and brutality are among the first that come to mind, despite the fact that their culture prospered for nearly 2,000 years. Like a number of ancient individuals and empires in that region, the negative perception of ancient Assyrian culture was passed down through Biblical accounts, and regardless of the accuracy of the Bible’s depiction of certain events, the Assyrians clearly played the role of adversary for the Israelites. Indeed, Assyria (Biblical Shinar) and the Assyrian people played an important role in many books of the Old Testament and are first mentioned in the book of Genesis: “And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Ashur and built Nineveh and the city Rehoboth and Kallah.” (Gen. 10:10-11). Although the Biblical accounts of the Assyrians are among the most interesting and are often corroborated with other historical sources, the Assyrians were much more than just the enemies of the Israelites and brutal thugs. A historical survey of ancient Assyrian culture reveals that although they were the supreme warriors of their time, they were also excellent merchants, diplomats, and highly literate people who recorded their history and religious rituals and ideology in great detail. The Assyrians, like their other neighbors in Mesopotamia, were literate and developed their own dialect of the Akkadian language that they used to write tens of thousands of documents in the cuneiform script (Kuhrt 2010, 1:84). Furthermore, the Assyrians prospered for so long that their culture is often broken down by historians into the “Old”, “Middle”, and “Neo” Assyrian periods, even though the Assyrians themselves viewed their history as a long succession of rulers from an archaic period until the collapse of the neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BCE. In fact, the current divisions have been made by modern scholars based on linguistic changes, not on political dynasties (van de Mieroop 2007, 179).
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Robert William Rogers
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Education
He was educated at the Central High School in Philadelphia and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1886 with the degree of bachelor of arts; in 1887 he received the same degree from Johns Hopkins University.
This study he continued while at college, adding, at Johns Hopkins University, the study of Assyrian under Prof. Paul Haupt.
When in 1887 Professor J. Rendel Harris left Hopkins for Haverford College, Rogers followed him thither as instructor in Greek and Hebrew.
Continuing his Oriental studies, he received from Haverford the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1890.
In addition to the degree from Haverford College, he received that of Ph. D. from the University of Leipzig in 1895; and numerous honorary degrees.
Career
From 1890 to 1892 he was professor of English Bible and Semitic history in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. In 1893 he was called to the professorship of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis in Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, a position which he filled until 1929. He was an instructor at the summer sessions of Columbia University from 1915 to 1921. In 1919 he was made professor of ancient Oriental literature in Princeton University, on the Paton Foundation, which position he held conjointly with his professorship in Drew until 1929.
Throughout his life Rogers was an ardent student of Assyriology, Hebrew, and the Old Testament and made his contributions to knowledge in these fields. He spent many of his summers at Oxford and other European centers prosecuting his researches in their libraries. In addition to numerous articles, he was the author of Outlines of the History of Early Babylonia (1895); A History of Babylonia and Assyria (2 vols. , 1900; 6th ed. , rewritten, 1915); The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (1908); Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (1912); The Recovery of the Ancient Orient (1912); The History and Literature of the Hebrew People (2 vols. , 1917), comprising a manual for teachers and a textbook for students; Great Characters of the Old Testament (1920); A Book of Old Testament Lessons (2 vols. , 1921), a lectionary; A History of Ancient Persia (1929). Rogers' work, while intelligent and accurate, was that of an interpreter rather than a discoverer of new material or one who blazes new paths. His History of Babylonia and Assyria was, when published, not only the most competent history of these nations in any language but so interestingly written that it found many enthusiastic readers beyond the circle professionally concerned with the subject. As a lecturer, he was often in demand in various parts of the United States, and at one time visited Japan and China, in both of which countries he delivered courses of lectures to continually increasing audiences. He had the gift of making the ancient world live again until his listeners shared with him something of the thrill which he found in the story of ancient life. Although he fully accepted the modern critical view of the Old Testament, he possessed such tact and consideration for the normal growth of his students that he escaped the ecclesiastical censure visited by his Church upon some of its other Old Testament scholars. His contributions to scholarship were rewarded by recognition from many institutions. In addition to the degree from Haverford College, he received that of Ph. D. from the University of Leipzig in 1895; and numerous honorary degrees. He was a member of Oriental and archeological societies, both American and foreign, and towards the close of his life was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1929, owing to physical infirmities, he resigned both his professorships and retired to a farm near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, which he named "Omagh Farm. "
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The History of Assyria
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The History of the Chaldean Empire
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A History of Babylonia and Assyria, Vol. 2: The History of Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea (Classic Reprint)
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The History of Assyria
Religion
As a boy he had been brought up in the Protestant Episcopal Church, but later allied himself with the Methodist Episcopal, and in 1890 he was admitted on trial to the Philadelphia Conference; in 1894 he was ordained elder.
Membership
member of Oriental and archeological societies, both American and foreign,
member of the American Philosophical Society.
Connections
On June 3, 1891, he married Ida Virginia Ziegler of Philadelphia, who with two children survived him.
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Methodist Episcopal