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  • Jacob Lauinger – The Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem: History as Metaphor and Simile

    Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University Gilman Hall room 50 The Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem: History as Metaphor and Simile In 701 BCE, the Assyrian army besieged the city of Jerusalem. Different narratives describing this siege are preserved both in the Hebrew Bible and also in the Assyrian king Sennacherib’s own royal annals. In this lecture, […]