Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Assyrian Dominance (745-640 B.C.)

Tiglath-Pileser III — stela from the walls of his palace
(British Museum, London)
Photograb: wikipedia

This article relates the rise of the Assyrian Empire, its military campaigns that led to the fall of the Northern Kingdom. Read the article to give you a background of the politics and power struggles in the Eighth Century B.C. The northern prophets Amos and Hosea and the southern prophets Isaiah and Micah exercised their prophetic ministry in this period.

Click on this to go to the article: Assyrian Dominance (745 BC-640 BC) by Dennis Bratcher.

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