"Like a bird in a cage" : the invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE / edited by Lester L. Grabbe.

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TextSeries: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 363. | European seminar in historical methodology ; 4.Publication details: London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 354 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780567207821
056720782X
1281802727
9781281802729
9786611802721
661180272X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: "Like a bird in a cage".DDC classification:

933/.03 22

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DS121.6 .L55 2003eb

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Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Part I: INTRODUCTION; Introduction; Part II: ARTICLES; Chronology: A Skeleton without Flesh? Sennacherib's Campaign as a Case-Study; Malleability and its Limits: Sennacherib's Campaign against Judah as a Case-Study; This Is What Happens ... ; Of Mice and Dead Men: Herodotus 2.141 and Sennacherib's Campaign in 701 BCE; 701: Sennacherib at the Berezina; On the Problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History; Sennacherib's Campaign of 701 BCE: The Assyrian View.

Summary: What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book investigates the problem of "seriousness of offence" in English law from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness are synthesised and communicated through various descriptive and performative registers. Seven case studies show that biblical law discriminates between the seriousness of different offences and between the relative seriousness of the same offence when committed by different people or when performed in different ways. Re.

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"A Continuum imprint."

Articles from a meeting of the European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History held in Utrecht, August, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-346) and indexes.

What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book investigates the problem of "seriousness of offence" in English law from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness are synthesised and communicated through various descriptive and performative registers. Seven case studies show that biblical law discriminates between the seriousness of different offences and between the relative seriousness of the same offence when committed by different people or when performed in different ways. Re.