The Assyrians and the Old Testament

The bible deals extensively with the interactions between mesopotamians and their tiny western neighbors, israel and judah. The greatest villains in the old testament are probably the assyrians. Archaeology and the ble alike agree that waves and waves of assyrians moved into the northern kingdom of israel. It wous either be a part of the world empire or face annihilation. But then in six, 12 b c e, something shocking happened. One of the sons of the old matriarch, sumer, finally killed the other one, the legitimate son babylon. In its decisive conquest of assyria, babylon had help. A whole coalition of babylonian allies