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Isaiah's Oracle Against Assyria (Isaiah 30, 27–33) In The Light Of Archæology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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A TEXT which others have confessed their inability to translate is always a challenge, and on reading some of the commentaries on Is. 30, 32 it seemed to me that it was possible to render it quite differently in such a way as to bring it into line with its context. However, if my interpretation were sound it would have to be established that it referred to an object which had special significance for Assyrians and Judeans in the 8th century B.C.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1955

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References

page 413 note 1 Cambridge Bible, p. 250

page 413 note 2 And thus not to be compared with such combinations as keneseth hag-gedōlah

page 414 note 1 M.T. hat-topheth with the vowels of bosheth, ‘shameful thing ’.

page 414 note 2 Perhaps it underlies nōsedū in Ps. 2, 2, where the great men ‘ sit on cushions ’.

page 414 note 3 Syria, 1954, plates vii-x, described on pp. 51 ff.

page 414 note 4 Arslan-Tash (Geuthner, 1931), 89 f.

page 415 note 1 Luckenbill, Ancient Records(University of Chicago Press, 1926), I, 273.Google Scholar

page 415 note 2 Thureau, Dangin, Une relation de la huitiëme campagne de Sargon (Geuthner, 1912), line 388.Google Scholar

page 415 note 3 H. R. Hall, Babylonian and Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, pi. xli, no. 2.