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Kingdom of Judah

Judah was an ancient southern Levantine kingdom centered on Jerusalem in the Iron Age

Detail of the Assyrian reliefs showing the siege of Lachish, a city of the kingdom of Judah, during Sennacherib’s campaign of 701 BCE. Carved at Nineveh around 700–692 BCE and held in the British Museum. Photographed on 12 September 2010; an Assyrian representation of the event from the attackers’ perspective
Detail of the Assyrian reliefs showing the siege of Lachish, a city of the kingdom of Judah, during Sennacherib’s campaign of 701 BCE. Carved at Nineveh around 700–692 BCE and held in the British Museum. Photographed on 12 September 2010; an Assyrian representation of the event from the attackers’ perspectivePhotograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) · CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SALicense · Related reference · Image source

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Judah was an ancient southern Levantine kingdom centered on JerusalemJerusalemJerusalem is a city of religious importance in Judaism, Christianity and IslamGlossary · Click to read the explanation in the Iron Age. [1]

Its evidence is prominent in the first half of the first millennium BCE, including Lachish. Here the name denotes the ancient kingdom and region, rather than a person called Judah or Judas in other narratives.

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  1. Academic source, identity and context: Kingdom of Judah. Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑
  2. Penn Museum, Lachish essay, identity and context: Kingdom of Judah. Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑

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