Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem Story, History and Historiography

Isaac Kalimi, Ph.D. (1990), Gutenberg Forschungsprofessor, Hebräische Bibel und Geschichte Israels, Evng.-Theologische Fakultät, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Deutschland. He has published numerous books and articles in English, German and Hebrew, including Das Chronikbuch und seine Chronik: Zur Entstehung und Rezeption eines biblischen Buches (Herder 2013) and The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles (Eisenbrauns, 2005, reprinted 2012).
Seth Richardson Ph.D. (Columbia University, 2002) is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Texts from the Late Old Babylonian Period (ASOR, 2010), editor of Rebellions and Peripheries in the Cuneiform World (AOS, 2010), and has published more than two dozen scholarly articles on the political and intellectual history of the ancient Near East.