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12/01/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall

A modern artwork depicting the deliverance of Nineveh (Ninawa) from ISIS in 2017. The image shows stylized figures in a historical scene, with elements like a lion, a tractor, and wheat, blending ancient and modern imagery

19th Annual Leon Levy Lecture

Framing Conquest as Deliverance: Lessons from Assyria in the 10th-9th Centuries BCE

Karen Radner

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. In the 10th century BCE, the formerly grand kingdom of Assyria consisted only of what is today northern Iraq and centered on the three cities Assur, Nineveh (modern Mosul) and Arbela (modern Erbil).

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