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Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Without Rival The Royal Performance of Masculinity in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and Palace Reliefs 20 3 Daughter Zion The Gendered Presentation of the Assyrian Crisis in First Isaiah, Zephaniah, and Nahum 60 4 From Daughter to Whore and Back Again The Transformation of the Jerusalem Complex in the Post-Assyrian Period 112 5 The Fruits of Comparison A Conversation between Gendered Texts 141 6 Conclusion 164 Plates 173 Bibliography 181 Index of Subjects 193 Index of Modern Authors 196 Index of Biblical References 199
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Jews -- History -- 953-586 B.C.
Syro-Ephraimitic War, ca. 734 B.C. -- Language.
Bible. O.T. Prophets -- Historiography.
Jerusalem in the Bible.
Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.
Relief (Sculpture), Ancient -- Assyria.
Gender identity.
Metaphor in the Bible.