This is part 2 of the story of the prophet Isaiah, the Judahite King Hezekiah, and the Assyrian Emperor Sennacherib. We explore prophetic oracles, a tortured cultural pizza metaphor, divine snakes, and more on purity and sacrifice from scholar Eve Feinstein.
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Bibliography:
Eve Levavi Feinstein - ‘Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible’;
Berlin, Brettler, et al - ‘The Jewish Study Bible (Second Edition)’;
Daniel McClellan - ‘YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach’;
Barton & Stavrakopoulou - ‘Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah’;
Francesca Stavrakopoulou - ‘God: An Anatomy’;
Eckart Frahmn - ‘Assyria’;
Marc van de Mieroop - ‘A History of the Ancient Near East’;
Finkelstein and Silberman - ‘The Bible Unearthed’;
Robert Alter - ‘The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary’;
Mario Liverani - ‘Israel’s History and the History of Israel’;
Van der Toorn, Becking, van der Hoorst, et al - ‘Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible’;
https://www.thetorah.com/article/hezekiahs-reform-the-archeological-evidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2kuETGoOM&list=PLpQ8NT-8yU1qbtN4sHO8I-r4fJI27Adlg
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