The last days of the Kingdom of Israel
Intro; Table of Contents; The Last Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Introducing the Proceedings of a Multi-Disciplinary Conference; Part I: Setting the Scene; How to Encounter an Historical Problem? "722-720 BCE" as a Case Study; Part II: Approaching the Fall of Samaria from Contemp...
| Summary: | Intro; Table of Contents; The Last Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Introducing the Proceedings of a Multi-Disciplinary Conference; Part I: Setting the Scene; How to Encounter an Historical Problem? "722-720 BCE" as a Case Study; Part II: Approaching the Fall of Samaria from Contemporary Assyrian and Egyptian Sources; Contextualizing the Last Days of the Kingdom of Israel: What Can Assyrian Official Inscriptions Tell Us?; Samaria, Hamath, and Assyria's Conquests in the Levant in the Late 720s BCE. The Testimony of Sargon II's Inscriptions Part VII: Reflections in the ProphetsThe Book of Hosea and the Last Days of the Northern Kingdom. The Methodological Problem; Isaiah and the Fall of the Kingdom of Israel; Indices; 1. General index; 2. Words; 3. Texts The Fall of Samaria: an Analysis of the Biblical SourcesIn Search of the Original Biblical Record of the Assyrian Conquest of Samaria; Part V: Working with the Book of Kings: the Chronological Framework; 2 Kings 15-18: a Chronological Conundrum?; The Last Days of Israel: Chronological Considerations; Part VI: Working with the Book of Kings: the Narrative; Wicked Usurpers and the Doom of Samaria. Further Views on the Angle of 2 Kings 15-17; Hoshea ben Elah, the Last King of Israel: Narrative and History in 2 Kings 17:1-6; Did Hoshea of Israel Continue the Foreign Policy of His Predecessors? Why Israel? Reflections on Shalmaneser V's and Sargon II's Grand Strategy for the LevantThe "Lost Tribes of Israel" in the Context of the Resettlement Programme of the Assyrian Empire; The End of the Kingdom of Israel: A View from the Nile Valley; Part III: Views from Archaeology; The Annals of Sargon II and the Archaeology of Samaria: Rhetorical Claims, Empirical Evidence; Megiddo and Jezreel Reflected in the Dying Embers of the Northern Kingdom of Israel; Part IV: Working with the Book of Kings: the Text; Between Two Differing Editions: Some Notable Text-Critical Variants in 2 Kings 17 The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 3110564181 |