Esarhaddon's building list — Manasseh of Judah
Manasseh of Judah appears in two Assyrian kings' records as a vassal of Nineveh.
Nombrado fuera de la BibliaInscripciónc. 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…
- Hallado
- Nineveh, Iraq — Nineteenth-century excavations
- Se conserva en
- British Museum, London
- Lengua
- Akkadian
- Cómo llegó hasta nosotros
- Excavado, o todavía en pie donde se construyó.
Qué muestra
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.
Cómo lo usan los historiadores
Standard evidence for Judah's status as an Assyrian vassal in the seventh century.
En la Escritura
Se relaciona con
Fuentes
- Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon (RINAP 4, 2011)
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