Snake Featherston
Banned
This TL has as its POD that Judah gets deported and erased and Israel, the northern Kingdom survives. Owing to the fact that this is a POD about Jewish monarchies, Biblical history is used as the starting point.
POD: When Sargon II decides to conquer in the time kings go to war, he decides on a different tactic to cut off the arrogant House of Omri. He goes to war against the poor House of David. King Ahaz attempts to fight back, but the City of David falls to Sargon with ease, and the Southern Kingdom of Judah is no more.
721 BC: Hoshea of Israel decides, after his southern cousins have been erased and their religion starts to vanish, to start a bit of a cultural revival. Despite Israelite differences, Yahweh's predominance is re-emphasized, though the prophets object to the continued practices that are against the old, puritanical ways of Judah, from which many prophets fled.
703 BC: Hoshea's son Omri II reigns in Samaria, a time of brief glory and power, as the Assyrians under Sin-ahhe-erriba make menacing moves against Israel, only to retreat due to trouble in Babylon. A young Israelite prophet, after a moving experience upon a high place gives a thundering account of doom and death that Babylon will give within 117 years, a number that in the future Ephraism takes the significance that 40 does in OTL Judaism.
699 BC: Omri II killed and succeeded by King Methusaleh ben Barachel. As his name states, Methusaleh is a man of war, and launches a campaign against Ashdod. The campaign receives much booty, but the Assyrian King Sin-ahhe-erriba demands much of it. The memory of Judah's destruction still fresh, Methusaleh hands Sin-ahhe-erriba his booty, and Israel becomes a vassal state of Assyria, the brief period of strength enjoyed under Omri II over.
682 BC: Methusaleh succeeded by his son Uzziel. King Uzziel orders the rewriting of books recently uncovered from the house of a Judean scholar who escaped the exile. After 586 BC, these books become known as the Torah, though certain stories are drastically different. Namely, instead of Simeon and Levi slaughtering Shechem, it's Judah and Benjamin. Then, in the conquest narrative, Judah becomes weak as opposed to Israel. This starts a long process of compiling narratives of the monarchy from the perspective of Israelite religion that explains things in a similar, but different way to the OTL Bible.
622 BC: Assyria falls to Babylon. Nabu-udduri-ussur comes to power in a few years and surrounds Samaria instead of Jerusalem.
586 BC: Israel's last king, Barak ben Zechariah is led off to Babylon. Over the course of the next few hundred years until the rise of the Achaemenids, a new religious tradition develops based around remembrance of the glorious days when Israel was in its homeland. This tradition...called Ephraism.
To be continued...
My first true TL, so I eagerly await correction of all the 1000fold errors probably in it.
POD: When Sargon II decides to conquer in the time kings go to war, he decides on a different tactic to cut off the arrogant House of Omri. He goes to war against the poor House of David. King Ahaz attempts to fight back, but the City of David falls to Sargon with ease, and the Southern Kingdom of Judah is no more.
721 BC: Hoshea of Israel decides, after his southern cousins have been erased and their religion starts to vanish, to start a bit of a cultural revival. Despite Israelite differences, Yahweh's predominance is re-emphasized, though the prophets object to the continued practices that are against the old, puritanical ways of Judah, from which many prophets fled.
703 BC: Hoshea's son Omri II reigns in Samaria, a time of brief glory and power, as the Assyrians under Sin-ahhe-erriba make menacing moves against Israel, only to retreat due to trouble in Babylon. A young Israelite prophet, after a moving experience upon a high place gives a thundering account of doom and death that Babylon will give within 117 years, a number that in the future Ephraism takes the significance that 40 does in OTL Judaism.
699 BC: Omri II killed and succeeded by King Methusaleh ben Barachel. As his name states, Methusaleh is a man of war, and launches a campaign against Ashdod. The campaign receives much booty, but the Assyrian King Sin-ahhe-erriba demands much of it. The memory of Judah's destruction still fresh, Methusaleh hands Sin-ahhe-erriba his booty, and Israel becomes a vassal state of Assyria, the brief period of strength enjoyed under Omri II over.
682 BC: Methusaleh succeeded by his son Uzziel. King Uzziel orders the rewriting of books recently uncovered from the house of a Judean scholar who escaped the exile. After 586 BC, these books become known as the Torah, though certain stories are drastically different. Namely, instead of Simeon and Levi slaughtering Shechem, it's Judah and Benjamin. Then, in the conquest narrative, Judah becomes weak as opposed to Israel. This starts a long process of compiling narratives of the monarchy from the perspective of Israelite religion that explains things in a similar, but different way to the OTL Bible.
622 BC: Assyria falls to Babylon. Nabu-udduri-ussur comes to power in a few years and surrounds Samaria instead of Jerusalem.
586 BC: Israel's last king, Barak ben Zechariah is led off to Babylon. Over the course of the next few hundred years until the rise of the Achaemenids, a new religious tradition develops based around remembrance of the glorious days when Israel was in its homeland. This tradition...called Ephraism.
To be continued...
My first true TL, so I eagerly await correction of all the 1000fold errors probably in it.