Shuichi Hasegawa

Shuichi Hasegawa

Shuichi Hasegawa

Shuichi Hasegawa is associate professor of Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East in the Department of Christian Studies, Rikkyo University, Japan. As a member of the staff of the Japanese expedition, he has joined the excavations at Tel En Gev and Tel Rekhesh, Israel. He is the author of Aram and Israel during the Jehuite Dynasty (de Gruyter, 2012) and of articles relating to the books of Kings and the history of ancient Israel.

Depiction of Jehu
Depiction of Jehu

The House of Omri

The house of Omri was a common designation of the northern Kingdom of Israel in Assyrian royal inscriptions, which was used long after Omri’s dynasty was overthrown.