The Murder of Sennacherib (3.95)(633 words)
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Hallo, William W., “The Murder of Sennacherib (3.95)”, in: Context of Scripture Online, Editor in Chief: W. Hallo. Consulted online on 17 January 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2211-436X_cos_aCOSB_3_95>▲ Back to top ▲
Commentary
About three thousand letters have been recovered from the royal archives of the Sargonid Dynasty (721–609 bce) at Nineveh. Half of them were published by Harper (1892–1914) under the title of Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (hence ABL ), and translated by Waterman (1930–36) and, in part, by Pfeiffer (1935). The whole corpus is being reedited by the State Archives of Assyria (SAA) project (Helsinki); see for now SAA…