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7 - Hezekiah and Isaiah

Putting Judah on the Map

from Part I - The Rise and Fall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

Jacob L. Wright
Jacob L. Wright
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Emory University, Atlanta
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These lines are from the poem that the English poet and peer Lord Byron published in his Hebrew Melodies from 1815. What inspired this unusual treatment of an Assyrian monarch was Byron’s interest in the Middle East (he died helping Greece in its war with the Ottoman Empire), his interest in Jewish emancipation, and the biblical account of Assyria’s assault on ancient Judah.

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Why the Bible Began
An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
 , pp. 101 - 118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Elayi, Josette, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, SBL Press, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Farber, Zev I. and Wright, Jacob L. (eds.), Archaeology and History of Eighth-Century Judah, SBL Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Fleming, Daniel E., The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Grabbe, Lester L. (ed.), Like a Bird in a Cage: The Invasion of Sennacherib in 701 bce, Bloomsbury, 2003.Google Scholar
Kahn, Dan’el, Sennacherib’s Campaign against Judah: A Source Analysis of Isaiah 36–37, Cambridge University Press, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lipschits, Oded, Age of Empires: The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th–2nd Centuries BCE in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions, Penn State University Press, 2021.Google Scholar
Luckenbill, Daniel David, The Annals of Sennacherib, Oriental Institute Publications, 1924.Google Scholar
Matty, Nazek Khalid, Sennacherib’s Campaign against Judah and Jerusalem in 701 B.C.: A Historical Reconstruction, De Gruyter, 2016.Google Scholar
Park, Song-Mi Suzie, Hezekiah and the Dialogue of Memory, Fortress Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Russell, Stephen C., The King and the Land: A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical World, Oxford University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Schniedewind, William, How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel, Cambridge University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Ussishkin, David, Biblical Lachish: A Tale of Construction, Destruction, Excavation and Restoration, Israel Exploration Society, 2014.Google Scholar
Young, Robert Andrew, Hezekiah in History and Tradition, Brill, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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  • Hezekiah and Isaiah
  • Jacob L. Wright, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book: Why the Bible Began
  • Online publication: 13 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859240.010
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  • Hezekiah and Isaiah
  • Jacob L. Wright, Emory University, Atlanta
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  • Hezekiah and Isaiah
  • Jacob L. Wright, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book: Why the Bible Began
  • Online publication: 13 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859240.010
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