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How did the colossal Assyrian empire end up on the ash heap of history?
In this video, the Jews survived a ferocious, all-out assault by the most formidable military power of the pre-Roman world and the dominating force in the Near East. This was the Assyrian empire under the monarch Sennacherib, who reigned from 705 to 681 BCE and who in 701 invaded the kingdom of Judea with a massive army and laid siege to a poorly defended Jerusalem.
What happened next? The Hebrew Bible has one answer; later Greek historians had another. Suffice it to say that, mysteriously, this surefire campaign to annihilate the ancestors of today’s Jews—to wipe out Judaism—failed, and the colossal Assyrian empire ended up on the ash heap of history.
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