The raging torrent
Subtitle: historical inscriptions from Assyria and Babylonia relating to ancient Israel
By: translated and annotated by Mordechai Cogan
Publisher: Carta
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9789652207074
Subjects: Assyrië; Gewapende conflicten; Akkadian Cuneiform inscriptions; Jews; Babylonië; Keilschrifttext; Sources; 15.51 Antiquity; History
Description: "The Raging Torrent presents a comprehensive collection of the royal inscriptions and varied chronographic texts from Assyria and Babylonia that treat the Land of Israel and the People of Israel. Covering a period of just over three hundred years during the first half of the 1st millennium BCE, these texts tell the story of the military encounters between the Mesopotamian empires and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, which led in most cases to their submission and ultimate downfall. Many of the texts relate to events described in the Hebrew Bible, while others provide information about affairs that were unknown until their rediscovery in modern times. All the texts have been newly translated from the original cuneiform documents and are accompanied by a consecutive commentary and select bibliography." "Illustrative material - maps and photographs of relevant artifacts - provide additional accessibility to the sources of this intriguing period in the history of the ancient Near East." --Book Jacket.
Notes: "A Carta handbook"--Cover and bottom of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Shalmaneser III; title: Adad-nerari III; title: Shalmaneser IV; title: Tiglath-pileser III; title: Sargon II; title: Sennacherib; title: Esarhaddon; title: Ashurbanipal; title: Assyrian Eponym Chronicle; title: Neo-Babylonian chronicles; title: Nebuchadnezzar II; title: Cyrus II, King of Persia.