Biblical Archaeology_A Very Short Introduction by Eric H. Cline

Author:Eric H. Cline [Cline, Eric H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Religion
ISBN: 9780195342635
Amazon: 0195342631
Goodreads: 6372574
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

One northern king discussed by the biblical writers is Ahab, son of Omri, who married Jezebel and who “did evil in the sight of the LORD more than all who were before him” (1 Kings 16:30). The Bible recounts a number of battles that Ahab fought against Ben-Hadad of Aram who ruled from Damascus (as 1 Kings 20 says). Ahab is mentioned in an extrabiblical inscription on a seven-foot-tall stone monument that dates to 853 BCE. This, the so-called Monolith Inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, describes a battle that he fought at the city of Karkar, located in what is now modern Syria. There Shalmaneser fought against a coalition of troops gathered from Damascus, Bylos, Egypt, Israel, and elsewhere, including 2,000 chariots and 10,000 infantry belonging to Ahab:

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