The city besieged : siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East /
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Hebrew
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
36.
CHANE ;
36.
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Call Number: DS41 .C85 v.36
Table of Contents:
- Ch 1 Introduction
- What is siege warfare
- Purpose of the book and method of discussion
- Ch 2 Sources
- Literary sources
- Non-literary documents
- Artistic representations of siege warfare
- Archaeological evidence
- Ch 3 Military aspects
- Blockade
- Breakthrough
- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects
- Introduction
- Babylonian siege documents
- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar
- Legal significance of the hardship formulae
- "Charitable deeds"
- Ch 5 Social aspects
- Between man and God
- Public life.