During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about Josiah's religious reforms and military interactions. Consider what the "book of the law" looked like and contained, how the Neo-Assyrian Empire lost ground to the growing Neo-Babylonians, why Egypt flipped from friend to foe, and where the first (and last?) battle in recorded history was fought.

Episode links:

The Dead Sea Scrolls: https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive

Ketef Hinnoam scroll: Jeremy D. Smoak, “Words Unseen,” Biblical Archaeology Review 44, no. 1 (2018): 52–59, 70; https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/words-unseen/

“ABC 2 (early Years of Nabopolassar),” Livius.org, https://www.livius.org/sources/content/mesopotamian-chronicles-content/abc-2-early-years-of-nabopolassar/

D. J. Wiseman, Chroicles of the Chaldean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1956), https://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20337.pdf

“tablet, asset number 157679001,” British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1896-0409-152

Tel Megiddo: https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-megiddo-armageddon-national-park/

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