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21. Younger, “Deportations of the Israelites,” 219 ; see also his n. 73. On this point,
    there is a consensus. However, while scholars of the period seem to agree on 157
    deportations in the Near East during that period, there is no agreement on the number
    of deportees (ranging, according to estimates, from 1. 5 to 4. 5 million people). See Oded,
    Mass Deportations.


22. Younger, “Deportations of the Israelites,” 221 – 223.


23. Ibid., 219.


24. Oded,Mass Deportations, 87 – 98. Ran Zadok, “Notes,” identified names con-
    taining Israelite elements (such as the Yahwisticyhw) in some areas in Mesopotamia
    dating back to the period after the Assyrian campaigns.


25. Younger, “Deportations of the Israelites,” 220.


26. Younger, “Israelites in Exile,” 66.


27. A classic, but misled, perception of Assyria is A.T. Olmstead ( 1880 – 1945 ),
    History of Assyria. For an evaluation of Assyrian propaganda, see Hamilton, “The Past as
    Destiny,” 217 – 222.


28. Oded,War, Peace and Empire, 163.


29. Oppenheim, “Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires.”


30. Grayson, “Histories and Historians.”


31. See Fales,Assyrian Royal Inscriptions.


32. Oded,War, Peace and Empire, 120 – 131.


33. Ibid., 54 – 56.


34. Ibid., 102 – 106.


35. King, “The Eighth”; Moore and Lewis,Birth of the Multinational, 100 – 131.
    36 .Liverani,“Fall of the Assyrian Empire,” 374.


36. See George, “Assyria”; and particularly Gitin, “Neo-Assyrian Empire”; Elat,
    “Phoenician Overland Trade”; Elat, “Economic Relations”; Na’aman, “Tiglath-pileser
    III’s Campaigns.”


37. Cifola,Analysis, 190.


38. Tadmor,Inscriptions, 97 ; see another list of universalistic titles in Cifola,
    Analysis, 157 – 158.


39. Tadmor,Inscriptions, 97. The term “four quarters of the earth” (the “whole
    world”) was included in one of the titles of the Mesopotamian god Enlil. See Glassner,
    Mesopotamian Chronicles, 129.


40. Oded,War, Peace and Empire, 164.


41. Cited in Joanne`s,Age of Empires, 80.


42. Tadmor,Inscriptions, 195 , 105.


43. Oded,War, Peace and Empire, 163 – 165.


44. Parker,Mechanics of Empire, 127 – 128.


45. Cifola,Analysis, 157.


46. See Vanderhooft,Neo-Babylonian Empires, 115 – 202.


47. Liverani,Israel’s History, 158 – 159 ; Vanderhooft,Neo-Babylonian Empires, 123 –
    135 .Vanderhooft dedicates much room to a discussion concerning the dating of these
    prophecies, which is a major point of debate among scholars. It is clear that many of the
    oracles belong in a later period (early sixth century). However, earlier Assyrian realities

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