1 | Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian celebration of New Years. | |
2 | To assist Marduk in his struggle the Mesopotamians held a festival for the New Year. | |
3 | And in Mesopotamia, for example, it extends well into the pre-Islamic world. | |
4 | Legend has it that he was martyred in Mesopotamia by being hung upside down and sawed to death - longitudinally. | |
5 | What Stephen does is he starts off just talking about the God who appeared to Abraham in Mesopotamia. |