Shuichi Hasegawa

The Jehuite Dynasty was the longest dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom. Under the Jehuite kings, Israel was thrown into the arena of the regional political struggles and experienced the time of an unprecedented upheaval and then prosperity. This book is the result of a comprehensive study on this important dynasty that has never been adequately discussed before. By consulting all the available epigraphical and archaeological sources, this study examines the historical authenticity of the biblical text and integrates the results into the historical discussion.

Aram and Israel during the Jehuite Dynasty

Christoph Levin

Karen Radner

Despite considerable scholarly efforts for many years, the last two decades of the Kingdom of Israel are still beneath the veil of history. What was the status of the Kingdom after its annexation by Assyria in 732 BCE? Who conquered Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom? When did it happen? One of the primary reasons for this situation lies in the discrepancies found in the historical sources, namely the Hebrew Bible and the Assyrian texts. Since biblical studies and Assyriology are two distinct disciplines, the gaps in the sources are not easy to bridge. Moreover, recent great progress in the archaeological research in the Southern Levant provides now crucial new data, independent of these textual sources. This volume, a collection of papers by leading scholars from different fields of research, aims to bring together, for the first time, all the available data and to discuss these conundrums from various perspectives in order to reach a better and deeper understanding of this crucial period, which possibly triggered in the following decades the birth of "new Israel" in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, and eventually led to the formation of the Hebrew Bible and its underlying theology.

Shuichi Hasegawa

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