The Last Days of the Kingdom of Israel - (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für die Alttestamentliche Wissensch) (Paperback)

About the Book

What was the status of the Kingdom of Israel after its annexation by Assyria in 732 BCE? Who conquered Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom? When did it happen?Leading scholars from different fields of research discuss these questions and thus shed l

Book Synopsis

Despite considerable scholarly efforts for many years, the last two decades of the Kingdom of Israel are still beneath the veil of history. What was the status of the Kingdom after its annexation by Assyria in 732 BCE? Who conquered Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom? When did it happen? One of the primary reasons for this situation lies in the discrepancies found in the historical sources, namely the Hebrew Bible and the Assyrian texts.

Since biblical studies and Assyriology are two distinct disciplines, the gaps in the sources are not easy to bridge. Moreover, recent great progress in the archaeological research in the Southern Levant provides now crucial new data, independent of these textual sources.

This volume, a collection of papers by leading scholars from different fields of research, aims to bring together, for the first time, all the available data and to discuss these conundrums from various perspectives in order to reach a better and deeper understanding of this crucial period, which possibly triggered in the following decades the birth of "new Israel" in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, and eventually led to the formation of the Hebrew Bible and its underlying theology.

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What was the status of the Kingdom of Israel after its annexation by Assyria in 732 BCE? Who conquered Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom? When did it happen?
One of the primary reasons for the lack of information lies in the discrepancies found in the historical sources, namely the Hebrew Bible and the Assyrian texts. Since biblical studies and Assyriology are two distinct disciplines, the gaps in the sources are not easy to bridge.
This unique collection of papers by leading scholars from different fields of research, brings together all the available data and discusses the questions from various perspectives in order to reach a better and deeper understanding of this crucial period, which possibly triggered the birth of new Israel in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, and eventually led to the formation of the Hebrew Bible and its underlying theology.

About the Author

Shuichi Hasegawa, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, Christoph Levin and Karen Radner, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany.