Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem - Story, History and Historiography

In Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem, twelve scholars of the ancient world examine the histories, myths, and tales that formed around the Assyrian campaign of 701 B.C.E. over the course of more than a millennium of re-tellings.

About the author

Isaac Kalimi, Ph.D. (1990), Gutenberg Forschungsprofessor, Hebräische Bibel und Geschichte Israels, Evng.-Theologische Fakultät, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Deutschland. He has published numerous books and articles in English, German and Hebrew, including Das Chronikbuch und seine Chronik: Zur Entstehung und Rezeption eines biblischen Buches (Herder 2013) and The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles (Eisenbrauns, 2005, reprinted 2012).
Seth Richardson Ph.D. (Columbia University, 2002) is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Texts from the Late Old Babylonian Period (ASOR, 2010), editor of Rebellions and Peripheries in the Cuneiform World (AOS, 2010), and has published more than two dozen scholarly articles on the political and intellectual history of the ancient Near East.

Product details

• Assisted by: Isaac Kalimi (Editor), Seth Richardson (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9789004265615
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26561-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 975 g
• Series: Culture and History of the Anc
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity