War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East : : Military Violence in Light of Cosmology and History / / C. L. Crouch.
The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. It argues that a common cosmological and ideological outlook generated similarities in ethical thinking. In all three...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I Ideology, cosmology and ethics
- 2. Ideology and the confrontation of cultures
- 3. Assyrian cosmology
- 4. Judahite and Israelite cosmology
- Part II Ethics and society
- 5. Ethics of the Assyrian élite
- 6. Ethics of the Judahite and Israelite élite
- 7. Ethics of the non-élite
- Part III Ethics and history
- 8. Developments in Assyrian ethics
- 9. Developments in Judahite and Israelite ethics I
- 10. Developments in Judahite and Israelite ethics II
- 11. Conclusions
- Backmatter