Tales of Two Cities (in the Second-Century BCE): Jerusalem and Nineveh

This article reviews the two roughly contemporary deutero-canonical works from the second century BCE: the book of Judith and the book of Tobit. Both of these books agree in making Nineveh/Assyria the antagonist, even though the Medes had destroyed that city more than four hundred years before. This...

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Published in:Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Main Author: Dick, Michael Brennan 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2016]
In: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-48
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judith / Tobit / Jerusalem / Ninive / Geschichte 2.Jh.v.Chr. / Prophecy / Temple (Jerusalem, Motiv)
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Peripeteia
B Tobit
B Judith
B Jerusalem
B Nineveh
B BIBLE. Apocrypha. Judith
B Nineveh (Extinct city)
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