Frahm Eckart (ed.) A Companion to Assyria

Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 634 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4443-3593-4.A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding of society and life in this ancient civilization.
- The only detailed up-to-date introduction providing a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty years;
- Original essays written and edited by a team of respected Assyriology scholars from around the world;
- An in-depth exploration of Assyrian society and life, including the latest thought on cities, art, religion, literature, economy, and technology, and political and military history.Introduction (Eckart Frahm).
Geography and History.
Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria (Jason Ur).
“Assyria” in the Third Millennium BCE (Lauren Ristvet).
The Old Assyrian Period (20th–18th Century BCE) (Klaas R. Veenhof).
Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Old Assyrian Period (Cécile Michel).
The Transition Period (17th to 15th Century BCE) (Shigeo Yamada).
The Middle Assyrian Period (14th to 11th Century BCE) (Stefan Jakob).
Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Middle Assyrian Period (Stefan Jakob).
The Neo‐Assyrian Period (ca. 1000–609 BCE) (Eckart Frahm).
Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Neo‐Assyrian Period (Karen Radner).
Post‐Imperial Assyria (Stefan R. Hauser).
The Fringes of Empire: Assyria and its Neighbors.
Assyria and the North: Anatolia (Andreas Fuchs).
Assyria and the East: Western Iran and Elam (Andreas Fuchs).
Assyria and the West: Syria and the Levant (Ariel M. Bagg).
Assyria and the Far West: The Aegean World (Robert Rollinger).
Assyria and the South: Babylonia (Eckart Frahm).
Assyria and the Far South: The Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf (Eckart Frahm).
Elements of Assyrian Civilization.
Languages and Writing Systems in Assyria (Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere).
Assyrian Religion (Stefan M. Maul).
Assyrian Literature (Alasdair Livingstone).
Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Ashur (Nils P. Heeßel).
Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Kalḫu and Nineveh (Jeanette C. Fincke).
Assyrian Legal Traditions (Frederick Mario Fales).
Assyrian Cities and Architecture (John M. Russell).
Assyrian Art (John M. Russell).
Assyrian Technology (Ariel M. Bagg).
Assyrian Warfare (Stephanie Dalley).
Thoughts on the Assyrian Empire and Assyrian Kingship (Mario Liverani).
The Afterlife and Rediscovery of Assyria.
Assyria in Late Babylonian Sources (Paul‐Alain Beaulieu).
Assyria in the Hebrew Bible (Eckart Frahm).
Assyria in Classical Sources (Robert Rollinger).
The Archaeological Exploration of Assyria (Mogens Trolle Larsen).
Assyrian Christians (Aaron Michael Butts).
List of Assyrian Kings (Eckart Frahm).