The Defeat of Sennacherib [SEP] collection
The Defeat of Sennacherib
The Defeat of Sennacherib is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, produced between around 1612 and 1614. It shows the defeat of the army of Sennacherib by an angel, as described in the Old Testament. It is a pendant to "The Conversion of Saint Paul", now in the Courtauld Gallery in London.
External links.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150104182214/http://www.pinakothek.de/node/46983
apparent defeat of Sennacherib by YHWH supported the idea of monotheism in an age when a conquered people typically adopted the god or gods of their conquerors, as their own had failed to protect them. The extraordinary defeat of Sennacherib which McNeill suggests, by disease which was as yet not understood, would have proven YHWH superior to the gods of the most powerful nation then known to the Jews, Assyria. McNeill concludes that if Sennacherib had taken the city, the Jews may have adopted polytheism, and consequently, the Abrahamic religions would