As it happens, on 13 December, 2005 (12 Kislev, 5766), Dr. Nili Wazana
(Hebrew University), will be lecturing on ' "For is the tree of the field a
human?" Biblical Responses to Assyrian Propaganda' at Bar-Ilan University's
Samuel Noah Kramer Institute of Assyriology. So let's see what she has to
say on the subject.