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2018
This chapter explores the archival texts of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and attempts to gauge the legal and economic position of slavery in Assyrian society. It shows that the Assyrians held a similar legal understanding of slavery to the Greeks, and knew also of the phenomenon of debt bondage.
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This chapter explores the archival texts of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and attempts to gauge the legal and economic position of slavery in Assyrian society. It shows that the Assyrians held a similar legal understanding of slavery to the Greeks, and knew also of the phenomenon of debt bondage.
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2014
The Assyriologist George Smith (1840–76) was trained originally as an engraver, but was enthralled by the discoveries of Layard and Rawlinson. He taught himself cuneiform script, and joined the British Museum as a 'repairer' of broken cuneiform tablets. Promotion followed, and after one of Smith's most significant discoveries among the material sent to
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The Assyriologist George Smith (1840–76) was trained originally as an engraver, but was enthralled by the discoveries of Layard and Rawlinson. He taught himself cuneiform script, and joined the British Museum as a 'repairer' of broken cuneiform tablets. Promotion followed, and after one of Smith's most significant discoveries among the material sent to
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L'Assiria dopo l'Assiria / Assyria after Assyria
2022The memory of Assyria, after the fall of the great Mesopotamian civilizations, has been handed down by the Bible and by Greek authors. In the former, it is the instrument of the Lord's punishment against his own people and becomes a symbol of pride and arrogance.
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1994
Abstract I had lying upon a chair a volume of Layard’s ‘Nineveh,’ and selecting a page upon which was an engraving as nearly resembling the object I knew the man had concealed as I could find, I told him that this book was a book of divination, and that by it I could discover whether or not he had secreted any of the antiquities.
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Abstract I had lying upon a chair a volume of Layard’s ‘Nineveh,’ and selecting a page upon which was an engraving as nearly resembling the object I knew the man had concealed as I could find, I told him that this book was a book of divination, and that by it I could discover whether or not he had secreted any of the antiquities.
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The Prevalence and Purpose of the ‘Assyria-Egypt’ Motif in the Book of Hosea
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2021Yisca Zimran
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