Esarhaddon's building list — Manasseh of Judah
Manasseh of Judah appears in two Assyrian kings' records as a vassal of Nineveh.
Außerbiblisch genanntInschriftc. 673 BC
Esarhaddon lists twenty-two kings of the west summoned to haul timber and stone for his palace at Nineveh. Among them is Manasseh, king of Judah. Ashurbanipal's annals later name him again among those who supplied troops.
I called up the kings of the land Hatti… Manasseh, king of Judah…
- Gefunden
- Nineveh, Iraq — Nineteenth-century excavations
- Heute in
- British Museum, London
- Sprache
- Akkadian
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
The Assyrian texts show him as a vassal; Chronicles' account of his being taken to Babylon in fetters and returning is not recorded outside the Bible.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
Standard evidence for Judah's status as an Assyrian vassal in the seventh century.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon (RINAP 4, 2011)
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