Rabu, 12 April 2017

Siege of Lachish, 701 B.C.

The Assyrians’ mastery of siegecraft conquered ancient Judah. The opening stanza of Lord Byron’s imortrtal poem “The Destruction of Sennacherib” resonates with a sense of the overwhelming catastrophe the Assyrian “wolf” inflicted on the Israelites in the eighth century B.C.: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming …

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