Sennacherib and Jerusalem : new perspectives
During the campaign of Sennacherib against the West in 701 BCE, the Judahite king Hezekiah paid a disproportionately huge tribute to the Assyrian king. In order to answer the question why Hezekiah’s tribute was that huge, this article surveys the available evidence from a bird’seye perspective. It p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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Journal for semitics
Year: 2007, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 267-288 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | During the campaign of Sennacherib against the West in 701 BCE, the Judahite king Hezekiah paid a disproportionately huge tribute to the Assyrian king. In order to answer the question why Hezekiah’s tribute was that huge, this article surveys the available evidence from a bird’seye perspective. It pleads for a revitilazation of a modified "two campaigns" theory. By paying a huge tribute in 701 BCE, Hezekiah regained control over the Judahite countryside that earlier in Sennacherib’s campaign had been handed over to the Philistines., |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC101064 |