MIDEAST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: History Of Ancient Israel And Judah, De Facto, Book Of Deuteronomy
22 Oct 2018
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Kingdom: the geographical setting, southern central hill, demographic characteristics, judaea and benjamin, simeon was a wandering tribe, isolation and prosperity, water systems, international commerce. They didn"t need a big army, so they built huge ties with other nations. Stops paying the assyrian tax: closes the assyrian temple in jerusalem, de facto declares war against the assyrians, don"t know why. They wrote an inscription inside the tunnel: written in ancient hebrew, celebrates the project and the wishful thinking of their battles, the assyrian expedition under senacherib. Put jerusalem under siege, but lost: don"t know why they couldn"t win. They invited the northern kingdom back: this is where the idea of the united kingdom" really came from. The egyptian army is using the via maris to get to the assyrians. Josiah (king of judeans) meets them in megiddo and fights them: we don"t know why egyptians weren"t looking to fight them.
