Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Aubin, Henry |
| Publisher: | Anchor Canada |
| Date: | 4/8/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In the summer of 701 BC, the powerful Assyrian army laid siege to Jerusalem, threateningthe Hebrew kingdom with destruction. Had Jerusalem perished, so too would Hebrewsociety itself. Rabbinical Judaism and its two offshoots — Christianity and Islam– could never have arisen.
But suddenly, the invaders fled, leaving the City ofDavid intact. Why? The Assyrian retreat has been one of history’s most enduring , in this ground-breaking account, award-winning writer Henry Aubin proves beyonddoubt that Jerusalem was saved by the army of the Kushite pharaoh of Egypt, madeup largely of Black Africans known as Nubians, from what is now Sudan. Led bythe great general Taharqa, who would go on to become a pharaoh himself, this Africanarmy seldom figures in modern biblical scholarship — the result, Aubin argues, ofa racist campaign over the last two centuries to erase the Kushite contribution toIsrael’s survival.
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