Posted on 10/02/2019 5:09:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Assyria conquered the kingdom of Israel, and deported many of the residents of Samaria and its surroundings to other Assyrian provinces, and brought deportees from other conquered territories to Samaria to take their place. Excavations at Tel Hadid, near Lod in Israel, have unearthed material remains that contribute to our understanding of these transformative years.
Deportation of residents from rebellious vassal states was one of the ways Mesopotamian empires maintained control of their territory. This practice was devised, and largely used, during the Neo-Assyrian Empire...
Mass deportations and resettlement of conquered peoples served as a fundamental tool of statecraft, economic organization, and imperial control, in which rivals from the Assyrian core and the elite and craftsmen from defeated polities alike were grouped together and deported. By isolating these groups within larger local populations, the Assyrian kings ensured loyalty to the state and minimized the likelihood of resistance among the common people, who were left without their traditional elite.
The most famous such expulsion was the deportation of the Judahites to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar...
The Assyrian conquests of Israel, more than a century earlier, involved various exiles as well. They began under Tiglath-Pileser III, when he conquered the north and east of Israel...
The Babylonian policy was one of organized resettlement, where the social structures of the Judahites were largely maintained in exile, albeit with modifications. They had to reinvent their new home in language, in narrative and in myth; as a coherent group (and due to various other circumstances) they were able to negotiate the disruptive and disorienting experience and to adjust their identity accordingly.
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Yup they defeated the “Northern Kingdom” known as Israel. The “Southern Kingdom” was known as Judah and located in Jerusalem. Babylon would come knocking for them later. That would lead to the 70 year “Diaspora” until King Cyrus of Media-Persia allowed the Jews to return home. Daniel, writer of the Book of Daniel, would be in those sent into the Diaspora and he would, through Divine Inspiration, write the Book.
notes of land sales in cuneiform, to foreign buyers:
Archaeology in Israel: Tel Hadid
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/tel-hadid
Assyrians Came, Conquered, and Kicked Everyone Out: Tablets Reveal 2,700-year-old Relocation
Cuneiform records show land sales 2,700 years ago in Hadid, central Israel, were made to people with entirely foreign names
By Philippe Bohstrom Sep 27, 2019
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-tablets-reveal-2-700-year-old-forced-relocation-by-assyrian-conquerors-1.7906334
Cuneiform tablet found at Hadid, with non-Yahwistic names. Credit — Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University.
https://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.7906013.1569420478!/image/468701601.jpg_gen/derivatives/fullscreen_1406xAuto/468701601.jpg
The first attempt to undo the consequences of Babel. Other subsequent empires have been less draconian -- until Stalin. He vigorously employed this scheme - e.g. Nagorno-Karabakh, where Armenian Christians were relocated in to Islamic cultures.
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