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Conquest and Form: Narrativity in Joshua 5-11 and Historical Discourse in Ancient Judah [PDF]
One goal of this essay is to offer an exploratory, historiographical analysis of the conquest account in the book of Joshua, an analysis that focuses upon the sociocultural milieu of ancient Judah.
Albertz +64 more
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An Overview of Military Confrontations between of the Assyrian Army against the Medes in the 7th centuries BCE [PDF]
The article discusses the military confrontation between Neo-Assyrian kingdom and the Median polities in the 7th century BCE. At the beginning the outline of the history of wars between the Medes and Assyria from the 9th century onwards is presented ...
FARROKH, Kaveh +11 more
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Peace for Our Time : Reading Jonah in Dialogue with Abravanel in the Book of the Twelve [PDF]
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Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia
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Hired Labor in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
For the understanding of any society it is vital to have a grasp of the key principles of its economic basis. Yet for the Neo-Assyrian Empire our knowledge can only be described as marginal in this respect, unlike for the Neo-Babylonian Empire where the field of economic history has always been popular; at the root of this lies of course the fact that ...
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Tyre, a Ship: The Metaphorical World of Ezekiel 27 in Ancient Judah [PDF]
This essay offers a close reading of the dirge in Ezek 27, the metaphorical description of the famed and sinking Tyrian ship. The analysis pays close attention to the symbolic world of the text, situating it within the literary and historical milieux of ...
Ian Wilson
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Empires and kingship are long-standing topics of research in ancient Near Eastern studies; the study of queenship has gradually received more attention over recent decades.
Melanie Wasmuth +13 more
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Gatekeepers and lock masters: the control of access in the Neo-Assyrian palaces [PDF]
Book description: This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase, ‘Your praise is sweet’ is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope
Radner, K
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The City “Amēdi” in Neo-Assyrian Texts
From the begining of the first milennium BC I. Aramean which had begun to establish principalities in the Syria, Euphrates valley and the fertile lands in the south of Mesopotamia, also established Bīt-Zamāni principality whose capital was the city of ...
Nurgül YILDIRIM
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Art of the Achaemenid Empire and Art in the Achaemenid Empire [PDF]
This chapter is an introduction to two of the major aspects of the study of Achaemenid Persian art, namely its definition, and the analysis of quotations of other artistic traditions.
Henry Colburn
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Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012 Season [PDF]
In 2012, the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) conducted its first season of fieldwork. The project’s goal is the complete mapping of the archaeological landscape of Erbil, with an emphasis on the Neo-Assyrian and Hellenistic periods.
De Jong, Lidewijde +4 more
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