Perhaps an earlier Babylonian Exile? Maybe a Captivity in Nineveh, and then Nebuchadnezzar becomes the TTL Cyrus the Great to the Jews, for freeing them? (that would be quite the twist
)
Then again, this is Sennecharib and the Assyrians, who practically invented the status update, just so they could put news of all their conquests on walls from the Levant to the Gulf!
He could just as easily massacre the Jews, or convert them forcibly to paganism, and all of Israel and Judah could wind up as Samaria IOTL.
No Judaism, no Christianity, No Islam
Perhaps Zoroastrianism becomes THE monotheistic faith; or maybe Jesus still does show up, but TTL Christianity becomes OTL Manichaeism?
Besides the religious implications, a destruction of Judah now, could mean that the Egyptians show up in time to save the Assyrians asses later on, which could mean an aborted Persian and Neo-Babylonian Empire, perhaps with a weakened Assyrian empire, and a revived New Kingdom Egypt. Maybe even Croesus and the Lydian come out on top, conquering a senile Assyria in the 6th century?
Then again, this is Sennecharib and the Assyrians, who practically invented the status update, just so they could put news of all their conquests on walls from the Levant to the Gulf!
He could just as easily massacre the Jews, or convert them forcibly to paganism, and all of Israel and Judah could wind up as Samaria IOTL.
No Judaism, no Christianity, No Islam
Perhaps Zoroastrianism becomes THE monotheistic faith; or maybe Jesus still does show up, but TTL Christianity becomes OTL Manichaeism?
Besides the religious implications, a destruction of Judah now, could mean that the Egyptians show up in time to save the Assyrians asses later on, which could mean an aborted Persian and Neo-Babylonian Empire, perhaps with a weakened Assyrian empire, and a revived New Kingdom Egypt. Maybe even Croesus and the Lydian come out on top, conquering a senile Assyria in the 6th century?