Sennacherib and his ill-fated siege of Jerusalem fascinated the ancient world. Twelve scholars--in Hebrew Bible, Assyriology, archaeology, Egyptology, Classics, Aramaic, Rabbinic and Christian literatures--examine how and why the Sennacherib story was told and re-told in more than a dozen cultures for over a thousand years. From Akkadian to Arabic, stories and legends about Sennacherib became the first vernacular tales of the imperial world. These essays address outstanding historical issues of the campaign and the sources, and press on to expose the stories' theological and cultural roles in...
Sennacherib and his ill-fated siege of Jerusalem fascinated the ancient world. Twelve scholars--in Hebrew Bible, Assyriology, archaeology, Egyptology,...
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in theory, defend. In Ancient States and Infrastructural Power a distinguished group of scholars examines the ways in which early states built their territorial, legal, and political powers before they had the capabilities to enforce them.
The volume brings Greek and Roman historians...
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they wer...
