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Adramelech

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Also known as: Adrammelech, Adar-malik

ADRAMELECH. - Son of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (704-681), in Assyrian Adar-malik. A. and his brother Sharezer, because they were not chosen to succeed him, killed their father while he was praying in the temple of Nisroch (read Marduk with Winckler and Dhorme, or, with others, Ashur) in Babylon (Winckler and Dhorme; according to others in Nineveh; cf. II Kings 19:36 ff.). In the Babylonian chronicle and in the inscription of the column of Nabonidus, a single son, unnamed, is the killer of Sennacherib. But in the Prism B of Esarhaddon, found in 1927-28, the killers of the king are several brothers, as the sacred text states. A. and Sharezer were then pursued and defeated by the heir Esarhaddon (v.), in Ararat (northern Mesopotamia).

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BIBL.: P. Dhorme, Les pays bibliques et l'Assyrie, Paris 1911, p. 82 ff.; A. Pohl, Historia populi Israel, Rome 1933, p. 124 f.

Francesco Spadafora

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By Francesco Spadafora

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 332.

More by Francesco Spadafora: Adramelech (Hebrew 'Adrammelek) · Apharsachei (Apharsachei, Apharsatachei, Apharsei) · Agag · Adarezer · Achis (Hebrew 'Akîš; Septuagint Ἀγγύος recalling Ἀγγίσωι; cf. I-Ha-U-Su of Assyrian inscriptions of the 7th century)

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Spadafora, Francesco. “Adramelech.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 332. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adramelech-2.

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Spadafora, Francesco. “Adramelech.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 332. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adramelech-2.

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@incollection{ec1_adramelech_2,
  author    = {Spadafora, Francesco},
  title     = {Adramelech},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {332},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adramelech-2}
}

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