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Neo-Assyrian and Israelite History in the Ninth Century: The Role of Shalmaneser III
K. Lawson Younger Jr. · 2007
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Document and modern access
- Type
- book chapter
- Publication
- Oxford University Press
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Neo-Assyrian imperial actors — date assertioninforms · contextualizes · pp. 243-254
Assesses ninth-century Assyrian-Israelite chronology and source rhetoric.
- entity Neo-Assyrian imperial actorsEvidence confidence: very highinforms · contextualizes · pp. 243-254
Assesses ninth-century Assyrian-Israelite chronology and source rhetoric.
- event Battle of Qarqar and Levantine coalition against Shalmaneser IIIEvidence confidence: very highinforms · contextualizes · historical analysis
Provides outcome and geopolitical caution.
- date assertion Battle of Qarqar and Levantine coalition against Shalmaneser III — date assertionEvidence confidence: very highinforms · contextualizes · historical analysis
Provides outcome and geopolitical caution.
- date assertion Aramean-Israelite conflict and shifting northern borderlands — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · contextualizes · Syrian coalition politics
Provides regional setting.
- date assertion Neo-Assyrian westward military and diplomatic pressure reaches Levantine polities — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · contextualizes · ninth-century Assyrian-Israelite history
Provides historical synthesis.
- event Aramean-Israelite conflict and shifting northern borderlandsEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · contextualizes · Syrian coalition politics
Provides regional setting.
- event Neo-Assyrian westward military and diplomatic pressure reaches Levantine politiesEvidence confidence: highinforms · contextualizes · ninth-century Assyrian-Israelite history
Provides historical synthesis.
- property assignment Kingdom of Israel — has property — Polity extent uncertainEvidence confidence: very highinforms · contextualizes · ninth-century geopolitics
Supports assignment.
- entity Kingdom of IsraelEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Qarqar sources and ninth-century Israel
Attests Ahab's Israel within Neo-Assyrian campaign records.
- date assertion Kingdom of Israel — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Qarqar sources and ninth-century Israel
Attests Ahab's Israel within Neo-Assyrian campaign records.
- event Omride consolidation of the kingdom of IsraelEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Ahab and ninth-century Israel
Provides external state attestation.
- causal hypothesis Asymmetric formation of Israel and JudahEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Ahab at Qarqar
External anchor.
- relationship Aramean polities and communities — conflicted and allied with — Kingdom of IsraelEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Qarqar coalition
Alliance context.
- date assertion Omride consolidation of the kingdom of Israel — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Ahab and ninth-century Israel
Provides external state attestation.
- date assertion Early consolidation of the northern Israelite polity — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Ahab at Qarqar
Provides external anchor.
- claim The Kurkh Monolith securely names Ahab the Israelite at Qarqar, while coalition troop totals and Assyrian victory claims are rhetorically shaped.Evidence confidence: very highinforms · provides source criticism · campaign analysis
Evaluates numbers and outcome.