"Like a bird in a cage": the invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Sheffield Academic Press ©2003
Series:Journal for the study of the Old Testament 363
European seminar in historical methodology 4
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:"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
What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book investigates the problem of "seriousness of offence" in English law from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness are synthesised and communicated through various descriptive and performative registers. Seven case studies show that biblical law discriminates between the seriousness of different offences and between the relative seriousness of the same offence when committed by different people or when performed in different ways. Re
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 354 pages)
ISBN:9780567207821
056720782X
9780826462152
0826462154

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