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Sennacherib’s Campaign to Judah: New Studies (Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East,)

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In 701 B.C. the Assyrian king Sennacherib launched his campaign against, a.o., Judah. This event has been recorded within the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah, the Biblical war narratives) and, as a consequence, has decisively influenced Jewish and Christian thought. The war, regardless that, has remained difficult to understand for up to date historians. The creator of this recent volume in Brill’s monograph series Studies within the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East brings together both Biblical and Assyrian sources at the campaign. A part of these abundant Assyrian materials are new, and in consequence enable the creator to give new insights at the event itself. A second major result of this study lies within the new, carefully supported interpretations of a few Isaiah oracles, and of both the Assyrian and Biblical narratives of Sennacherib’s campaign. The meticulous attention given to textual criticism, translation problems, historiographical questions and its cautiously applied literary criticism make it a model of the contextual method in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies.

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