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<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xiii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Eckart Frahm</i></p> <p><b>Part I Geography and History 11</b></p> <p>1 Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria 13<br /><i>Jason Ur</i></p> <p>2 “Assyria” in the Third Millennium bce 36<br /><i>Lauren Ristvet</i></p> <p>3 The Old Assyrian Period (20th–18th Century bce) 57<br /><i>Klaas R. Veenhof</i></p> <p>4 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Old Assyrian Period 80<br /><i>Cécile Michel</i></p> <p>5 The Transition Period (17th to 15th Century bce) 108<br /><i>Shigeo Yamada</i></p> <p>6 The Middle Assyrian Period (14th to 11th Century bce) 117<br /><i>Stefan Jakob</i></p> <p>7 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Middle Assyrian Period 143<br /><i>Stefan Jakob</i></p> <p>8 The Neo?-Assyrian Period (ca. 1000–609 bce) 161<br /><i>Eckart Frahm</i></p> <p>9 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Neo?-Assyrian Period 209<br /><i>Karen Radner</i></p> <p>10 Post?-Imperial Assyria 229<br /><i>Stefan R. Hauser</i></p> <p><b>Part II The Fringes of Empire: Assyria and its Neighbors 247</b></p> <p>11 Assyria and the North: Anatolia 249<br /><i>Andreas Fuchs</i></p> <p>12 Assyria and the East: Western Iran and Elam 259<br /><i>Andreas Fuchs</i></p> <p>13 Assyria and the West: Syria and the Levant 268<br /><i>Ariel M. Bagg</i></p> <p>14 Assyria and the Far West: The Aegean World 275<br /><i>Robert Rollinger</i></p> <p>15 Assyria and the South: Babylonia 286<br /><i>Eckart Frahm</i></p> <p>16 Assyria and the Far South: The Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf 299<br /><i>Eckart Frahm</i></p> <p><b>Part III Elements of Assyrian Civilization 311</b></p> <p>17 Languages and Writing Systems in Assyria 313<br /><i>Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere</i></p> <p>18 Assyrian Religion 336<br /><i>Stefan M. Maul</i></p> <p>19 Assyrian Literature 359<br /><i>Alasdair Livingstone</i></p> <p>20 Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Ashur 368<br /><i>Nils P. Heeßel</i></p> <p>21 Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Kalhu and Nineveh 378<br /><i>Jeanette C. Fincke</i></p> <p>22 Assyrian Legal Traditions 398<br /><i>Frederick Mario Fales</i></p> <p>23 Assyrian Cities and Architecture 423<br /><i>John M. Russell</i></p> <p>24 Assyrian Art 453<br /><i>John M. Russell</i></p> <p>25 Assyrian Technology 511<br /><i>Ariel M. Bagg</i></p> <p>26 Assyrian Warfare 522<br /><i>Stephanie Dalley</i></p> <p>27 Thoughts on the Assyrian Empire and Assyrian Kingship 534<br /><i>Mario Liverani</i></p> <p><b>Part IV The Afterlife and Rediscovery of Assyria 547</b></p> <p>28 Assyria in Late Babylonian Sources 549<br /><i>Paul?]Alain Beaulieu</i></p> <p>29 Assyria in the Hebrew Bible 556<br /><i>Eckart Frahm</i></p> <p>30 Assyria in Classical Sources 570<br /><i>Robert Rollinger</i></p> <p>31 The Archaeological Exploration of Assyria 583<br /><i>Mogens Trolle Larsen</i></p> <p>32 Assyrian Christians 599<br /><i>Aaron Michael Butts</i></p> <p>List of Assyrian Kings 613<br /><i>Eckart Frahm</i></p> <p>Index 617</p>

<p><b>Eckart Frahm</b> is Professor of Assyriology at Yale University, USA. His primary scholarly interest is the political and intellectual history of Assyria and Babylonia during the first millennium BCE. Frahm is the author of five books: <i>Einleitung in die Sanherib-Inschriften</i> (1997), <i>Historische und historisch-literarische Texte aus Assur </i>(2009), <i>Neo-Babylonian Letters and Contracts from the Eanna Archive</i> (co-authored with Michael Jursa, 2011), <i>Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries: Origins of Interpretation</i> (2011), and <i>Geschichte des alten Mesopotamien</i> (2013). Together with Enrique Jiménez and Mary Frazer, he is currently working on a project to publish a large number of Mesopotamian commentaries both in print and online.</p>

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