Course description
The seminar will deal with the history of the Land of Israel under the rule of the Assyrian empire, that rules in the Levant from the middle of the 8th century to the last third of the 7th century BCE. We will deal with the historical and archaeological sources to this period, will read the Biblical material as well as the Assyrian inscriptions, and will especially learn what are the historical tools for scholars to reconstruct the history of this period.
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