AN N EA 10W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Esarhaddon, Rabshakeh, Gihon Spring
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Lecture 7: hezekiah and the rise of zion traditions. Assyrian incursion into israel begins in 745 bc: 722 northern kingdom of israel is destroyed by the assyrian empire (samaria conquered capital of nk, sennacherib (705-681 bc) Assyrians sack samaria, 722, fall of north. Hezekiah, 715 689 bc: e(cid:374)(cid:374)a(cid:272)heri(cid:271)"s i(cid:374)(cid:448)asio(cid:374) (cid:1011)(cid:1004)(cid:1005) bc. Manasseh, 697 642 bc: assyrian vassal state. Josiah, 640 609 bc: fall of nineveh, 612, rise of babylonians, destruction of jerusalem and temple, and exile, 586 bc. Nebuchadnezzar, king of babylon, conquers judah and jerusalem. Seen as the king who remains on the throne of jerusalem. Biblical text care about this king (2 samuel 7: promise god made to the davidic line. Southern levant: west and much of north of judah turned into assyrian provinces, exiled nk and turned into a province, judah remains as a vassal state of the assyrian empire.
