Much of the surviving text Epic Etana tells story an eagle and a snake. The snake are extraordinary creatures, their abounds with mythological subtext. This paper argues that Neo-Assyrian recension was amended to include explicit references by names counterparts, anzu? bas?mu. These occur in two analogous contexts serve same narrative purpose: dehumanize other when seek do each harm. del...

The ChaldoAssyrians (also known as Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syriacs) are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Today's ChaldoAssyrians are the descendants of the ancient multiethnic Assyrian empire and one of the earliest civilizations emerging in Mesopotamia. Although the Assyrian empire ended in 612 B.C., history is replete with recorded details of...

For over forty years the dominant view in scholarship has been that Deuteronomy 13 is a composition of the seventh century B.C.E. Remarkable similarities of language and norms exist between the apostasy laws of Deuteronomy 13 and the disloyalty provisions set out in section 10 of the Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon of 672 B.C.E. The claim has proven especially attractive in light of the wealth of h...

Among the many Assyrian written sources and inscriptions some texts report the military expeditions of the kings of Assyria. These accounts, the so-called Itineraries texts, describe in details the different stops of the armies through territories outside the Assyrian heartland. With regard to the Zagros area, the reports mention different long and ruthless campaigns undertaken by some Assyrian...

The phenomenon of creating enemy images is timeless and universal. 1 In this activity, an abnormal " Other " is negatively juxtaposed in relation to a normal " Self " , not the least in political discourse. In various situations-notably ones that involve the topic of colonialism-a " subaltern " is constructed, that is an agent who is both inferior (thus " sub ") and different in an essence-base...

1. Introductory Remarks For the understanding of any state and any society it is vital to have a grasp of the key principles of its economic basis. Yet for the Neo-Assyrian Empire our knowledge is still severely limited, in contrast to the NeoBabylonian Empire where the field of economic history has long enjoyed popularity among modern scholars. At the root of this problem lies the extremely di...

No collection of laws from the iNeo-Assyrian period is known to us. If a text of this kind had ever existed, it seems highly likely that it would have been part of Assurbanipal's famous library in Nineveh. But neither in Nineveh nor in twenty-three excavated sites located in different parts of the empire have archaeologists have succeeded in unearthing so much as a fragment of such a text. In a...