useful things to read on the internet.

here is my reminder to myself when everyone asks me about why i want to go to iraq. no one thinks it's that weird when i, a sometime student of biblical history, want to go to israel and to jerusalem. but iraq is just as intertwined in that time and place and people. there is more history to be made in that nation.

The garden of Eden was in Iraq.
Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!
Noah built the ark in Iraq.
The Tower of Babel was in Iraq.
Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq
Isaac's wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq.
Jacob met Rachel in Iraq.
Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq.
Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel.
The Prophet Amos cried out in Iraq.
Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem.
Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq
The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq
(Christian theology also proclaims that the fourth person in the firey furnace was a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus. So he, too, was in Iraq).
Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on the wall" in Iraq.
Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.
Ezekiel preached in Iraq.
The wise men were from Iraq.
St. Peter preached in Iraq.