Kipp Davis joins the pod again, as we say farewell to a king and an empire. Josiah’s time on the throne meets an abrupt and unexpected end, leaving the kingdom of Judah reeling, and Assyria gets its send-off, as the kingdom is conquered by the Babylonians.

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Bibliography:

Radner et al – ‘The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East Volume IV’;

Radner et al – ‘The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume V’;

Kipp Davis – ‘God’s Propaganda’;  

Eckart Frahm – ‘Assyria’;  

Andrew George – ‘The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic’;  

Robert Cargill – ‘The Cities That Built the Bible’;  

Vicente Dobroruka – ‘Persian Influence on Daniel and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature’;  

Robert Alter – ‘The Hebrew Bible’;  

Charles Dickens – ‘A Tale of Two Cities’;  

Berlin, Brettler, et al – ‘The Jewish Study Bible’;  

Christian Frevel – ‘History of Ancient Israel’;  

Stephanie Dalley – ‘The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon’;