Critical Precis #4- Malleability and its limits: Senacherib's campaign against Judah as a case-study

MALLEABILITY AND ITS LIMITS: SENNACHERIB'S
CAMPAIGN AGAINST JUDAH AS A CASE-STUDY

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Malleability and its Limits: Sennacherib's Campaign against Judah as a Case-Study*
Introduction
As per its title, the purpose of this paper is to deal with the campaign of Sennacherib against Judah as a case study for the more general issue of malleability and its limits in ancient historical reporting and particularly Israelite historiographical writings. This issue raises important questions for the study of ancient historical writing in general, and in particular for the study of its dependence on outside-the-narrative referents and on the question of representation.1
Several of the features of this campaign contribute to its being a good case study for this purpose. First, one has to deal with a single, clearly
* May this paper serve as a token of appreciation for Professor John Van Seters. I have learned much from John, and enjoyed greatly our talks and meals together. It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I dedicate this paper to him.
1. To be sure, conclusions based on a particular case should not be assumed to hold true for the general case, but still they raise good heuristic issues and concerns for its study.
Discussions on the question of representation, external referentiality and the like are becoming more common, and increasingly 'passionate' in theoretical discussions about history and history writing. See, for instance, the following exchange of articles, Perez Zagorin, 'History, the Referent, and the Narrative: Reflections on Postmodernism Now', History and Theory 38 (1999), pp. 1-24; K. Jenkins, 'A Postmodern Reply to Perez Zagorin', History and Theory 39 (2000), pp. 181-200; Perez Zagorin, 'Rejoinder to a Postmodernist', History and Theory 39 (2000), pp. 201-209.