"Like a bird in a cage" : the invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE / edited by Lester L. Grabbe.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Grabbe, Lester L.

Conference Name:

European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History (4th : 2000 : Utrecht, Netherlands)

Series:

European seminar in historical methodology ; 4.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 363.

European seminar in historical methodology ; 4

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 363

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jerusalem--History--Siege, 701 B.C--Congresses.

Jerusalem.

Sennacherib, King of Assyria, -681 B.C--Congresses.

Sennacherib.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Sheffield Academic Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book investigates the problem of ""seriousness of offence"" in English law from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness are synthesised and communicated through various descriptive and performative registers. Seven case studies show that biblical law discriminates between the seriousness of different offences and between the relative seriousness of the same offence when committed by different people or when performed in different ways. Recurring

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Part I: INTRODUCTION; Introduction; Part II: ARTICLES; Chronology: A Skeleton without Flesh? Sennacherib's Campaign as a Case-Study; Malleability and its Limits: Sennacherib's Campaign against Judah as a Case-Study; This Is What Happens...; Of Mice and Dead Men: Herodotus 2.141 and Sennacherib's Campaign in 701 BCE; 701: Sennacherib at the Berezina; On the Problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History; Sennacherib's Campaign of 701 BCE: The Assyrian View

Updating the Messages: Hezekiah's Second Prophetic Story (2 Kings 19.9b-35) and the Community of Babylonian DeporteesClio in a World of Pictures-Another Look at the Lachish Reliefs from Sennacherib's Southwest Palace at Nineveh; Part III: CONCLUSIONS; Reflections on the Discussion; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

"A Continuum imprint."

Articles from a meeting of the European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History held in Utrecht, August, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-346) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611802721

9781281802729

1281802727

9780567207821

056720782X

OCLC:

276782626