The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

new lord of the world got a new religious centre – Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta – and by transferring the divine statues to Assyria, Tuku ...

For the Babylonians, on the other hand, Ashur had never been part of their pantheon. He was solely the god representing the poli ...

–––– 2006 ‘Sargon der Zweite. Über die Wiederinszenierung von Geschichte’. In: R. Rollinger and B. Truschnegg (eds), Altertum un ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT THE VIEW FROM JERUSALEM Biblical responses to the Babylonian presence^1  Baruch A. Levine T he Hebrew Bi ...

Biblical literature has a different perspective to offer the historian. In narratives, chronicles, and prophecies we hear the vo ...

of northern Israelites to far-off lands, settled foreigners in Samaria in their place. Among those foreigners were people from B ...

presented their credentials (Hebrew sepa ̄ rîm), as well as proffering gifts, termed minha ̄h which is the usual word for “tribu ...

submission to Assyria in obedience to Yahweh. As such, it may be seen as expressing a contemporary reaction to the sparing of Je ...

Among other things, the Chronicle highlights the events surrounding 605 BCE, and clarifies just how and why Egyptian power waned ...

Jeremiah 37 , among other biblical sources, reports that Egyptian forces, which we know to have been under Pharaoh Apries, broug ...

the word of Yahweh spoken though His servants, the prophets. Moreover, it was by Yahweh’s command that this happened in Judah, t ...

to “the sins of Manasseh.” It is of interest to note that the principal post hoc statements on the earlier fall of the Northern ...

when the city was breached, Zedekiah and his entourage had tried to escape by the Arabah road but he was caught, brought to Nebu ...

The political agenda is often obscure, or it is blurred by explanations of defeat and misfortune that focus on the consequences ...

as coming “from a far-off land, from Babylonia.” So in Jeremiah, they are first and foremost “a nation from afar” ( Jer 4 : 6 , ...

This is the core of the matter, and even those prophecies in Jeremiah that appear to be backward glances at the events are best ...

punishment on that nation, the word of Yahweh, with war, and with famine and with pestilence, until I hand them over completely ...

Clashes with false prophets: the debate over policy A close look at Jeremiah’s clashes with false prophets and with royal offici ...

The prophets who came before me and before you, from time immemorial, prophesied over many lands and upon great kingdoms – for w ...

on the other hand, though not unmindful of Judah’s faults (i. 2 – 4 ), is engrossed chiefly by the thought of the cruelties and ...