"... Surprisingly enough, Tadmor’s suggestion was not widely discussed. It was of course mentioned in Cogan and Tadmor’s Anchor Bible commentary on 2 Kings. It was also supported by Chaim Cohen in an article published in 1979, in which he showed that some of the expressions used in Rabshakeh’s speech, such as the title “the Great King, King of Assyria” and the description of Egypt as “a broken reed,” while appearing nowhere else in the Bible, are typical of Assyrian royal inscriptions, a fact that strengthens the probability of the speech’s historical accuracy. Both Tadmor and Cogan mention Ahiqar, the Aramean adviser who served in the court of Esarhaddon, Sennacherib’s son. Machinist, in his article on Rabshakeh, writes of “Hayim Tadmor’s now celebrated view,” and they all cite the Babylonian Talmud tractate b. Sanhedrin 60a, which suggests that “Rabshakeh was an apostate Israelite.” But beyond this, Tadmor’s suggestion was not discussed seriously by scholars ..."