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Title: New Light on Hezekiah's Second Prophetic Story (2 Kgs 19,9b-35)
Author(s): NA’AMAN, Nadav
Journal: Biblica
Volume: 81    Issue: 3   Date: 2000   
Pages: 393-402
DOI: 10.2143/BIB.81.3.3200446

Abstract :
The article re-examines some elements in Account B2 (2 Kgs 19,9b-35) in an effort to shed more light on the date and place in which the story was composed. It is suggested that the list of cities mentioned in vv. 12-13 reflects the conquests of Nabopolassar and Nebuchadrezzar in the late seventh century BCE. It is also suggested that vv. 17-18 may reflect the Babylonian practice of destroying cult statues during their conquest of Assyria. The author of Account B2 was probably a descendant of a Judean deportee who lived in eastern Babylonia in the second half of the sixth century BCE. It is further suggested that the Deuteronomist combined chronistic and narrative early texts (Accounts A and B1) and integrated them into his composition of the history of Israel.

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