The Religion of the Ancient Israelites in Assyria

One of these campaigns is remarkable because we have accounts of it written by both the winners and the losers in a level of detail almost unprecedented anywhere else. This was senacharib's campaign against the kingdom of judah. The religion of the ancient israelites was something of an oddity in this region at the time, because it disallowed the worship of any god but the hebrew god. If you worshipped any other deity, it was believed that you were, at best, talking to the air, and at worst, communing with evil spirits.