TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holloway,Steven
TI  - AÅ¡Å¡ur is King! AÅ¡Å¡ur is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire 
T2  - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
SN  - 9789047401223
AV  - BL1620 
U1  - 299/.21 23
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Assyro
KW  - Babylonian religion
KW  - Religion and state
KW  - Assyria
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047401223
ER  -