Judith - turning an Assyrian Crown Prince into a Prize Clown
by Damien F. Mackey “Judith had nothing but contempt and irony in her heart when she had, with all customary protocol, greeted Holofernes, who was assembled with his impressive entourage (Judith 10:23)”. Ben Dewar has written in the Abstract to his article: Rebellion, Sargon II’s “Punishment” and the Death of Aššu... Rebellion, Sargon II’s “Punishment” and the Death of Aššur-nādin-šumi in the Inscriptions of Sennacherib Ben Dewar Abstract Despite the frequency of rebellions against the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib, very few events in his annals are described as such. Instead rebels are often described as having never submitted to Sennacherib before. This reluctance to write about rebellion is unusual in Assyrian inscriptions, but has not been commented upon in the previous scholarship. This study investigates the reasons for this peculiarity of Senn...
