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author | Woo Min Lee |
title | Language of Power in the Simile, "Like a Caged Bird": Critical Discourse Analysis of the Assyrian Royal Lion Hunt and Sennacherib's Military Campaign Against Hezekiah of Judah |
abstract |
This dissertation is a sociolinguistic study of the Assyrian inscriptions, and reliefs, and the biblical texts about Sennacherib's military campaign against Hezekiah of
Jerusalem in 701 BCE. It demonstrates conflicting ideologies between the Assyrian Empire and the kingdom of Judah and contrasting viewpoints toward the outcome of the
military conflict. The Assyrian records describe the military campaign as successful in that Sennacherib brought out Padi of Ekron from Jerusalem and Hezekiah sent
tributes to Nineveh. On the contrary, the related biblical texts describe the divine intervention of YHWH that led to the withdrawal of Sennacherib's army from the city
of Jerusalem, while noting the tribute paid. Scholarly assessments of the military campaign have been primarily focused on the biblical texts. This study explores the
Assyrian royal lion hunting and military campaigns with a focus on the simile, "(shut up/enclosed) like a caged bird (kima issur quppi esirsu)," to understand the
outcome of the military campaign from a perspective of the empire as well as from that of Judah, based upon the related biblical accounts. To support my thesis,
I apply a sociolinguistic approach to the Assyrian inscriptions, and reliefs, and biblical texts. This approach provides a better understanding of the conflicting
ideologies and the outcome of Sennacherib's military campaign against Hezekiah of Judah in 701 BCE. |
school | The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University |
degree | Ph.D. (2016) |
advisor | Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan |
committee | Herbert Huffmon Kenneth Ngwa |
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