The Last Days of the Kingdom of Israel

Published by De Gruyter 2019

The Last Days of the Kingdom of Israel

Edited by: Shuichi Hasegawa , Christoph Levin and Karen Radner

Volume 511 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110566604

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
The Last Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Introducing the Proceedings of a Multi-Disciplinary Conference Shuichi Hasegawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Setting the Scene
How to Encounter an Historical Problem? “722–720 BCE” as a Case Study Bob Becking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
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? Jamie Novotny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Samaria, Hamath, and Assyria’s Conquests in the Levant in the Late 720s BCE. The Testimony of Sargon II’s Inscriptions Eckart Frahm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Why Israel? Reflections on Shalmaneser V’s and Sargon II’s Grand Strategy for the Levant Frederick Mario Fales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
The “Lost Tribes of Israel” in the Context of the Resettlement Programme of the Assyrian Empire Karen Radner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The End of the Kingdom of Israel: A View from the Nile Valley Robert G. Morkot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part III: Views from Archaeology
The Annals of Sargon II and the Archaeology of Samaria: Rhetorical Claims, Empirical Evidence Ron E. Tappy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Megiddo and Jezreel Reflected in the Dying Embers of the Northern Kingdom of Israel Norma Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Part IV: Working with the Book of Kings: the Text
Between Two Differing Editions: Some Notable Text-Critical Variants in 2 Kings 17 Timo Tekoniemi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
The Fall of Samaria: an Analysis of the Biblical Sources Dan’el Kahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
In Search of the Original Biblical Record of the Assyrian Conquest of Samaria Christoph Levin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Part V: Working with the Book of Kings: the Chronological Framework
2 Kings 15–18: a Chronological Conundrum? Kristin Weingart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
The Last Days of Israel: Chronological Considerations Steven L. McKenzie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
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 Christian Frevel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Hoshea ben Elah, the Last King of Israel: Narrative and History in 2 Kings 17:1–6 Michael Pietsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Did Hoshea of Israel Continue the Foreign Policy of His Predecessors? Georg Hentschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Part VII: Reflections in the Prophets
The Book of Hosea and the Last Days of the Northern Kingdom. The Methodological Problem Martti Nissinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Isaiah and the Fall of the Kingdom of Israel H. G. M. Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Indices
1. General index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
2. Words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
3. Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 423
Keywords: Kingdom of Israel; Neo-Assyria; Samaria; Hoshea

eBook

Published: November 5, 2018
ISBN: 9783110566604

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Published: November 5, 2018
ISBN: 9783110564167

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110710519