Made in Alexandria: The Origin of the Yahweh Cult

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“As for Hezekiah, the Judean, he did not submit to my yoke. I laid siege to 46 of his fortified cities, walled forts and to the countless small villages in their vicinity …. I led off 200,150 people, young and old, male and female, horse, mules, donkeys, camels, big and small cattle beyond counting, and counted them as booty.” (Taylor Prism)

700 chariots, 700 cavalry, and 10,000 soldiers belonging to Irhuleni of Hama; 2,000 chariots, and 10,000 soldiers belonging to Ahab, the Israelite Shalmeneser II inscription

“I received the tribute of Jehoash the Samarian, of the Tyrian [ruler] and of the Sidonian [ruler].”Adad-Nirari inscription

I called up the kings of the country Hatti and (of the region) of the other side of the river (Euphrates)...Manasseh, king of Judah..
Inscription of Esarhaddon

(Then) I called up my mighty armed forces which Ashur and Ishtar have entrusted to me and took the shortest road to Egypt and Nubia. During my march (to Egypt) 22 kings from the seashore, the islands, and the mainland [including] Manesseh, king of Judah Inscription of Asshurbanipal

These are Assyrian records....extrabiblical historical references which are realistically the only kind worth a shit. The Assyrians recorded the names of their vassals and/or opponents and they knew the difference between Israel and Judah. Unless you are asserting some kind of grand conspiracy...that the Assyrians were in on! You are coming across as a fanatic, Mouse. These places existed. It does not harm your position at all for them to have existed since we know nothing about them except what archaeology has shown us or what later writers tried to concoct for them.

And BAR may be edited by noted con artist Hershel Shanks....but Rollston is a scholar of the highest order. I'm half surprised that Shanks printed an article by him.