Open AccessThe discovery of Esarhaddons Succession Treaty (EST) at Tell Tayinat confirms the Assyrianapplication of this text on western vassals and suggests that the oath tablet was given toManasseh of Judah in 672 BC, the year in which the king of Assyria had all his empire andvassals swear an oath or treaty promising to adhere to the regulations set for his succession,and that this cuneiform tablet was set up for formal display somewhere inside the templeof Jerusalem. The finding of the Tell Tayinat tablet and its elaborate curses of 5355 thatinvoke deities from Palestine, back up the claim of the 1995 doctoral thesis of the author ofthis article that the impressive similarities between Deuteronomy 28:2044 and curses from 56 of the EST are due to direct borrowing from the EST. This implies that these Hebrewverses came to existence between 672 BC and 622 BC, the year in which a Torah scroll wasfound in the temple of Jerusalem, causing Josiah to swear a loyalty oath in the presence ofYhwh. This article aimed to highlight the similarities between EST 56 and Deuteronomy 28as regards syntax and vocabulary, interpret the previously unknown curses that astoundinglyinvoke deities from Palestine, and conclude with a hypothesis of the composition of the bookof Deuteronomy.