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Holloway, Steven,

Aššur is King! Aššur is King! : Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Steven Holloway. - 1 online resource. - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 10 Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 . - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 10. Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9789047401223 9789004123281

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789047401223 DOI

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Assyro--Babylonian religion.
Religion and state--Assyria.

LC Class. No.: BL1620

Dewey Class. No.: 299/.21