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About This Book
The campaign of Sennacherib against Judahis one of the most widely researched in biblical studies and Ancient Near East studies, and one that also poses scholarly challenges. Allusion to the event is found in Isaiah, Kings, and Chronicles, but there is no correlation between the Assyrian and biblical descriptions of the same event. Dan'el Kahn offers a text-critical analysis of these biblical passages that allude to the military events. Detecting repetitions, breaks in the narrative, and contradictions and inconsistencies in the texts, he traces and reconstructs different and discrete sources. Kahn demonstrates that the biblical passages are based on earlier sources that were later edited and revised by a third hand. Based on historical events that are found in non-biblical texts, he also offers new dates for thesources. He claims that the narrative was written for the book of Isaiah, arguing that it predates the version found in Kings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Problems in Isaiah 36-37
- 2 Previous Solutions
- 3 A New Historical-Critical Solution
- 4 Source BI
- 5 The Political Events in the Eighth Century BCE and the Results of the 701 BCE Campaign
- 6 Source BII
- 7 The Historical Background of Source BII (683-671 BCE)
- 8 The BIII Strand
- 9 The Babylonian Period
- 10 The Question of the Priority of Isaiah 36-37 vs. 2 Kings 18:13-19:37
- 11 Isaiah 36-37 and Their Location in the Literary Unit Isaiah 36-39
- 12 The Present Location of Isaiah 36-39 in the Book of Isaiah and the Formation of the Book
- 13 2 Chronicles 32 and Its Relation to Isaiah 36-37
- 14 Summary and Conclusions
- Appendix - Biblical Texts
- Bibliography
- Index to Biblical Passages Cited
- Index of Geographic Names and Peoples
- Index of Names