Like a Bird in a Cage
The Invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE
Like a Bird in a Cage
The Invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE
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Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780826462152
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 01/06/2003
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
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. Recurring elements include location and the offender's social statue. The closing chapter considers some of the implications for the current debate about crime and punishment.
Part 1; Introduction; Lester L. Grabbe; Introduction; Preliminary Remarks; Archaeology and Sennacherib; Two Centuries of Sennacherib Study: A Survey; Abstracts of Contributions to this Volume; Part 2; Articles; Bob Becking; Chronology: A Skeleton without Flesh? Sennacherib's Campaign as a Case-Study; Ehud Ben Zvi; Malleability and its Limits: Sennacherib's Campaign against Judah as a Case Study; Philip R. Davies; This is What Happens...; Lester L. Grabbe; Of Mice and Dead Men: Herodotus 2.141 and Sennacherib's Campaign in 701 Bce; Ernst Axel Knauf; 701: Sennacherib at the Berezina; Niels Peter Lemche; On the Problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History; Walter Mayer; Sennacherib's Campaign of 701 Bc: The Assyrian View; Nadav Na'Aman; New Light on Hezekiah's Second Prophetic Story (2 Kings 19.9b-35); Christoph Uehlinger; Clio in a World of Pictures-Another Look at the Lachish Reliefs from Sennacherib's Southwest Palace at Nineveh; Part 3; Conclusions; Lester L. Grabbe; Reflections on the discussion
