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James, Frances W. The Revelation of Jerusalem: A Review of Archaeological Research Expedition Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1979
Dubovský, Peter "Inverting Assyrian Propaganda in Isaiah’s Historiography: Writing the Hezekiah–Sennacherib Conflict in the Light of the Ashurbanipal–Teumman War" in Stromberg, Jacob and J. Todd Hibbard (eds.) The History of Isaiah: The Formation of the Book and Its Presentation of the Past Mohr Siebeck, 2021
Levin, Yigal "How Did Rabshakeh Know the Language of Judah?" in Yona, Shamir (ed.) Marbeh Ḥokmah: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Eisenbrauns, 2015
Gray, Alison Ruth Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures: A Reading through Metaphor Brill, 2014
Venter, Pieter M. The Dissolving of Marriages in Ezra 9-10 and Nehemiah 13 Revisited HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 74(4), 2018
Nickelsburg, George W. E. A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108 Fortress Press, 2001

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