(June 21, 2025 at 10:28 pm)Sandman Wrote: It shows Tyre was indeed the wealthiest, most powerful etc. of the time (excluding the super powers of the day)
I don't know anything about the history of Tyre. But I think to determine whether it was "destroyed and never rebuilt" we would have to look at the continuity, or lack thereof, between earlier and later cities on that site.
If there is institutional, governmental, ethnic, etc. etc. continuity, then we could say that Tyre survived. If there is a new city at the same site, with no continuity to the old one, then it's fair to say that the Tyre of the biblical prophecy was not rebuilt.
To contrast, we could look at the example of Hiroshima. That city took a pretty big hit. Despite many losses of personnel, however, the city government was the same before and after the bomb. All the surviving railroad workers showed up to work the next day. The university had to repair its buildings, but it's still the same university.
Carthage, on the other hand, was destroyed by Rome. Currently there are quite a few people living at or near the site of Carthage, but they are in no way a continuation of the institutions of the Carthage that Rome attacked.
So was the later version of thriving Tyre a survival of the old one, or a new set of institutions created at the same location?
(Seriously, I don't know. I'm asking.)
