Judah under the Assyrians: Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Gabriella Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2017v15n47p1030
• topic: Judah; Jerusalem; Hezekiah; Sennacherib’s 3rd Campaign; Bull inscription Nr. 6.; Religious studies; History; Archeology; Judá; Jerusalém; Ezequias; 3ª Campanha de Senaqueribe; Inscrição do Touro nº 6; Judá sob domínio Assírio; Teologia de Jerusalém

Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE is one of the most discussed events of the Ancient Near East. Nevertheless, the impacts of the Assyrian Campaign in Judah of the time of Hezekiah are still a matter of debate among scholars. This paper introduces the reader to some of these discussions, with an emphasis on the changes experienced in Judah under Assyrian influence. The discussion on Sennacherib’s threat to Jerusalem and Hezekiah’s efforts to centralize the cult is based on the translation of parts of an Assyrian document, which tells this story, presented for the first time in Portuguese. The Bull Inscription Nr. 6 was retrieved by the first archaeological excavations in Sennacherib’s Southwest Palace at Nineveh during the 19th century. It was a public inscription located between the legs of a bull colossus guarding one of the entrances to the Palace’s Throne Room. The inscription was removed from its original location and belongs today to the British Museum collection in London.