Ep. 20: The Long Seventh Century, Pt. 1

This week's episode, we spend a lot of time with Assyrian king Esarhaddon, whose hellbent insistence on ensuring his own son's succession was not a repeat of his own disastrous rise to the throne that he promulgated a treaty text to the far corners of the Assyrian empire, a text that would be reworked to be a treaty between Yahweh and his people in Judah. All of this and so much more on this week's episode! Support the show on Patreon and get hours of bonus content and early access to episodes:

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Stavrakopoulou - 'King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice';

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Liverani - 'Israel's History and the History of Israel';

Frahm - 'Assyria';

Podany - 'Weavers, Scribes, and Kings';

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