could not have been written while it was in progress, or else soon after. Freedman (1987d, 20–26) argued that the books of the eighth-century prophets, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, and Micah, were assembled during the reign of Hezekiah to mark the destruction of the northern kingdom by the Assyrians in 722, the reason being that Israel failed to repent of its rebellion against Yahweh and gross violation of covenant demands, also because of Judah’s deliverance from the Assyrians in 701, at which time Hezekiah