The city besieged [[electronic resource] ] : siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East / / by Israel Ephʻal
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Ephʻal Israel
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| Titolo: |
The city besieged [[electronic resource] ] : siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East / / by Israel Ephʻal
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 355.4/409394 |
| Soggetto topico: | Siege warfare - Middle East |
| Sieges - Middle East | |
| Military art and science - Middle East - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | 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. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. \'...this book serves as an excellent overview of siege practices and their result as seen from the biblical and Mesopotamian perspective.\' Michael G. Hasel, Institute of Archaeology–Southern Adventist University |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The city besieged |
| ISBN: | 1-282-40096-7 |
| 9786612400964 | |
| 90-474-2756-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454817203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; ; v. 36.