Objectives and Consequences of the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Exercise

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Objectives and Consequences of the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Exercise "
Daniel Miller

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082815
Doc. No	:	LA126444
Call No	:	‭10.1163/102308009X12561890523474‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Daniel Miller
Title & Author	:	Objectives and Consequences of the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Exercise [Article]\ Daniel Miller
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2009
Volume/ Issue Number	:	16/3-4
Page No	:	124–149
Abstract	:	"The Neo-Assyrian Empire was most ascendant in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., ultimately controlling most of the ancient Near East before fading from history in 612. Assyrian ideology was predicated on cosmic supremacy of their chief deity Ashur, with the Assyrian monarch considered to be his vice-regent in "world" conquest. Assyrian imperialism may thus be said to have been religious in character. Nevertheless, the impetus for Assyrian domination was not primarily cultic. It was not compulsive desire to make subject peoples worship Ashur, but rather (as with empires in general) political and economic concerns that motivated Assyrian actions. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was most ascendant in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., ultimately controlling most of the ancient Near East before fading from history in 612. Assyrian ideology was predicated on cosmic supremacy of their chief deity Ashur, with the Assyrian monarch considered to be his vice-regent in "world" conquest. Assyrian imperialism may thus be said to have been religious in character. Nevertheless, the impetus for Assyrian domination was not primarily cultic. It was not compulsive desire to make subject peoples worship Ashur, but rather (as with empires in general) political and economic concerns that motivated Assyrian actions."
Descriptor	:	ASSYRIA
Descriptor	:	BIBLE
Descriptor	:	CULT
Descriptor	:	ECONOMY
Descriptor	:	EMPIRE
Descriptor	:	IDEOLOGY
Descriptor	:	ISRAEL
Descriptor	:	JUDAH
Descriptor	:	POLITICS
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/102308009X12561890523474‬