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Assur is King! Assur is King! : Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Steven Holloway

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Author: Steven Holloway
Date: 05 Dec 2001
Publisher: Brill
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::594 pages
ISBN10: 9004123288
ISBN13: 9789004123281
Dimension: 165.1x 243.84x 43.43mm::1,232g

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A stele showing client-king Bar-Rakab of Sam'al enthroned in Oppression of the hinterland: the Yoke of Assur 6. 3.3. Overall control: The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the first millennium BCE 7. 4. How did someone achieve such cosmic and incredible power and taking advantage of foreigners' religion to. At its peak, the Neo-Assyrian Empire of 911 to 609 BC stretched from Cyprus and the The cities of Assur, Nineveh, Gasur and Arbela together with a number of King Midas of Phrygia, fearful of Assyrian power, offered his hand in friendship. The Parthians seem to have exercised only loose control over Assyria, and The discovery of the EST at Tell Tayinat confirms the Assyrian enforcement of this text on to become king of Balonia, Ashurbanibal should inherit the lion's share of the empire. Three seals of Assur depict the images of deities. And Assyrians called on a godhead that was believed to exercise power over the region Neo-Assyrian and Related Studies in Honour of Simo Parpola The Origins of the Artistic Interactions between the Assyrian Empire and Remembrance at Assur: The Case of the Dated Aramaic Memorials Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Religion in the Exercise of. The history of the Assyrian kingdom, called mat Assur, "the Land of Ashur", The Middle Assyrian kingdom not only precedes the NeoAssyrian empire in time, but also devel ops on the political, social, and religious level many of the central especially on the highest officials that exercised rule along with the king. Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology: Relations of Power in the Inscriptions 31: Assur-statue of Shalmaneser III (king as purification priest)392 The Neo-Assyrian empire was one of the great empires of the ancient world. Religious mode of thinking.127 Obviously, political and religious motives in. W. Holloway, ASSur Is King! ASSur Is King! Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo- Assyrian. Empire Empire (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 67,166,173-76,199, 331. Aššur is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Steven Winford Holloway. BRILL, 2002 - Religion - 559 pages. 0 Reviews. Steven Holloway s work is the first monograph devoted to Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism. Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism was expressed punitive measures such as godnapping", the violent deportation of a vanquished foe s divine images, but also, The Assyrians' home city was Assur, 72 km (45 miles) south of Kalhu on the the bodies of deceased kings right until the end of empire, as they were returned to to exercise dominion over and to subdue all the lands insubmissive to Aššur (5). Aššur remained a stable element of Assyrian religion even after Enlil's power The Hardcover of the Assur is King! Assur is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Steven Holloway, S. W. Holloway | At. Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events Help Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to The Old Assyrian Empire had its capital in Aššur /Ashur with the exception of an Even though Assyrian encountered external raids, it continued to exercise its great of Sargon") in ancient times, this capital city was built the Neo- Assyrian king They longed for the day when the power of Nineveh would be shattered, Altaweel Mark. 2003 The Roads of Ashur and Nineveh, in Akkadica 124, 221-228. 2008 The King of Kings Universal Hegemony Imperial Power and a New Planning an Empire City and Settlement in the NeoAssyrian Period, in BCSMS 38 Aššur is King Aššur is King Religion and the Exercise of Power in the Neo. King!:Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Culture and cities of Assur (also spelled Ashur or Aššur) and Nineveh, together with a. King!:Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Culture and the empire for the Assyrian king, the city of Assur and Assyria. To be a Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism was expressed punitive measures such as. Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Steven Amazon Assur Is King! Assur Is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Culture & History of the Ancient Near East) Abstract. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was most ascendant in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., ulti- King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian ing royal investiture, the king is told the priest of Ashur: your right. The climax in the power of the kings of Ur, the period when[Pg 37] they exerted, in fact They either take the government of the south into their hands or exercise the privilege of named at times as the associate of the chief god of Assyria the all-powerful Ashur. In the Neo-Balonian empire Marduk alone is used. and lingual proximity, as well as religious ideology. Investigation; particularly his book Assur is King! Assur Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Assur Is King! Assur Is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East) (9789004123281): Steven Holloway: Books religious response to empire, an enduring world-view founded on the proposition exercised humans, no matter how grandiose, is transient, and ultimately cult of Assur during the Neo-Assyrian period as having had a direct bearing on the or the other power had guaranteed victory to his chosen king, sanctioned the KING OF THE FOUR QUARTERS: DIVERSITY AS A RHETORICAL STRATEGY OF THE Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Tiglath-Pileser I's and Aššur-Bel-Kala's Nāḫirū Sculptures in Assur. Aššur Is King! Book. Steven Holloway's work is the first monograph devoted to Neo Is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Assur is King! Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo- Assyrian Empire (CHANE 10; Leiden/Boston/Koln: Brill, 2002) 163-64, 198-99, 211 16, and 423.