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This volume investigates the question of how both Assyria and Judah could remember the war of 701 BCE as their respective victory. Whilst surveying available evidences for historical reconstructions, Paul S. Evans compares the Sennacherib's Third Campaign with the War of 1812 between Canada and the USA as an example of disputed victory from military history. Evans examines Assyrian and biblical texts to evaluate the conflict and argues that ra...

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Essays in this volume are largely revised papers which were originally presented as part of the Ancient Historiography Seminar of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and they investigate particular texts of Chronicles, examine central themes, and consider future prospects for Chronicles study."--Publisher.

This book examines 2 Kings 18-19 employing both source-critical and rhetorical-critical methodologies in an effort to answer the question of how the biblical text should be used in a historical reconstruction of Sennacheriba (TM)s invasion into Judah in 701 BCE.