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The city besieged : siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East / by Israel Ephal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ephal, Israel.
- Series:
- Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 36.
- Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 36
- Standardized Title:
- Ke-ʻir netsurah. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Siege warfare--Middle East.
- Siege warfare.
- Sieges--Middle East.
- Sieges.
- Military art and science--Middle East--History.
- Military art and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare, this study examines the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the Ancient Near East. The book is based on Akkadian and biblical (and, to lesser degree, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite and Ugaritic) sources as well as on the depictions on reliefs from Assyrian palaces and Egyptian temples. The analysis incorporates lexical study and military thinking and focuses on the technology of warfare and human behavior in a state of emergency. This volume is a co-publication between Brill and The Hebrew University Magnes Press.
- Contents:
- Ch 1 Introduction
- What is siege warfare
- Purpose of the book and method of discussion
- Ch 2 Sources
- Literary sources
- Non-literary documents
- Artistic representations of siege warfare
- Archaeological evidence
- Ch 3 Military aspects
- Blockade
- Breakthrough
- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects
- Introduction
- Babylonian siege documents
- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar
- Legal significance of the hardship formulae
- "Charitable deeds"
- Ch 5 Social aspects
- Between man and God
- Public life.
- Notes:
- Two printings were published in 2009; one had only the first 113 pages and was probably an error, and the other had 211 pages, with two additional chapters (4 and 5) which match the tables of contents (p. [x-xi) and bibliography and indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-40096-7
- 9786612400964
- 90-474-2756-4
- OCLC:
- 568677249
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004174108.i-214 DOI
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