Steven Holloway’s work is the first monograph devoted to Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism. Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism was expressed by punitive measures such as "godnapping", the violent deportation of a vanquished foe’s divine images, but also, and this is a far less-studied facet of this topic, by the geographical focus and extent of the material support the Assyrians lavished on favored polities, in effect a Marshall Plan aimed at winning over the elite citizenry pivotal to maintaining economic and political equilibrium.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Steven Holloway
EAN: 9789004123281
COUNTRY: Netherlands
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WEIGHT: 1232 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Brill
DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-12-05
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GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Comparative Religion
WIDTH: 155 cm
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Book Themes:
Assyrian Empires, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient history, Middle Eastern history
Steven W. Holloway, Ph.D. (1992) in Old Testament, The University of Chicago, teaches on an adjunct basis in the Chicago area and works full-time for the American Theological Library Association. He has published and lectured extensively on the Bible, Assyriology, and their common ground.
