Assyriology, Its Use And Abuse in Old Testament Study
Assyriology, Its Use And Abuse in Old Testament Study
Francis Brown
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Yet the j^roof ' See above, p. 27. IX OLD TESTAMENT STUDY. 63 to this effect is conclusive. And here, again, I must ask pardon if I give too mucH of dry detail. Tlie topic is very important, not only for the understand- ing of these brief notices, but for the whole subject of Old Testament chronol- ogy. The true state of the case appears, negatively, from the absence, in the un- broken line of Assyrian rulers, of the name Pul, as either predecessor, co-regent, or successor of Tiglath Pileser, o...r as an ally, a rival, or a tributary prince. It has been argued, jDositively, from the following considerations : (a. ) Menahem, King of Israel, is named by Tiglath Pileser II. In an inscription, as tributary to himself. Now we learn from 2 Kings XV. 19, that Menahem bought the favor of Pul by the gift of a thousand talents of silver, which, of course, was nothing more nor less than a tribute. The silence of Assyrian inscriptions of 64 ASSYRIOLOGY : ITS USE AND ABUSE this period about any Pul, gives the oppor- tunity for supposing, with no great vio- lence, that the King to whom the Bible declares Menahem to have been tributary w^as the same with the King whom the inscriptions name in a like connection.
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