"Like a bird in a cage": the invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Sheffield Academic Press ©2003
Schriftenreihe:Journal for the study of the Old Testament 363
European seminar in historical methodology 4
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Beschreibung:"A Continuum imprint.". - Articles from a meeting of the European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History held in Utrecht, August, 2000
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-346) and indexes
Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Part I: INTRODUCTION; Introduction; Part II: ARTICLES; Chronology: A Skeleton without Flesh? Sennacherib's Campaign as a Case-Study; Malleability and its Limits: Sennacherib's Campaign against Judah as a Case-Study; This Is What Happens ... ; Of Mice and Dead Men: Herodotus 2.141 and Sennacherib's Campaign in 701 BCE; 701: Sennacherib at the Berezina; On the Problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History; Sennacherib's Campaign of 701 BCE: The Assyrian View
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