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Esther's Revenge at Susa - From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus (Hardcover)
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Esther's Revenge at Susa - From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus (Hardcover)
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Why are the names of the chief characters in the biblical Book of
Esther those of Mesopotamian deities? Stephanie Dalley argues that
the narrative reflects real happenings in seventh-century Assyria,
where the widespread belief that revenge belongs to the gods
explains why Assyrian kings described punitive campaigns as divine
acts, leading to the mythologizing of certain historical events.
Ashurbanipal's sack of Susa, led by the deities Ishtar and Marduk,
underlies the Hebrew story of Esther, and that story contains
traces of the cultic calendar of Ishtar-of-Nineveh. Dalley traces
the way in which the long-term settlement of lost tribes' in
Assyria, revealed by the fruits of excavation in Iraq and Syria,
inspired a blend of pagan and Jewish traditions.
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