A Companion to Assyria

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.

This wide–ranging Companion is broken down into sections covering the political, social, and economic history of Assyria from the third millennium BCE to the post–imperial period (609 BCE to AD 222), elements of Assyrian civilization, Assyria s role in the Bible and in Greek and Roman sources, and the rediscovery of ancient Assyria and its significance for the Assyrian Christians of today.

A Companion to Assyria is 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. As the first detailed English language overview of ancient Assyria published in fifty years, it is sure to be an important reference tool for scholars for years to come. 

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Introduction
Eckart Frahm

Part I: Geography and History

1 Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria
Jason Ur

2 Assyria in the Third Millennium BCE
Lauren Ristvet

3 The Old Assyrian Period (20th–18th century BCE)
Klaas R. Veenhof

4 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Old Assyrian Period
Cécile Michel

5 The Transition Period (17th to 15th century BCE)
Shigeo Yamada

6 The Middle Assyrian Period (14th to 11th century BCE)
Stefan Jakob

7 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Middle Assyrian Period
Stefan Jakob

8 The Neo–Assyrian Period (ca. 1000–609 BCE)
Eckart Frahm

9 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Middle Assyrian Period
Karen Radner

10 Post–Imperial Assyria
Stefan R. Hauser

Part II: The Fringes of Empire: Assyria and Its Neighbors

11 Assyria and the North: Anatolia
Andreas Fuchs

12 Assyria and the East: Western Iran and Elam
Andreas Fuchs

13 Assyria and the West: Syria and the Levant
Ariel M. Bagg

14 Assyria and the Far West: The Aegean World
Robert Rollinger

15 Assyria and the South: Babylonia
Eckart Frahm

16 Assyria and the Far South: The Arabian Peninsula and The Persian Gulf
Eckart Frahm

Part III: Elements of Assyrian Civilization

17 Languages and Writing Systems in Assyria
Mikko Luukko and Greta van Buylaere

18 Assyrian Religion
Stefan M. Maul

19 Assyrian Literature
Alasdair Livingstone

20 Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Ashur
Nils P. Heeßel

21 Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Kal u and Nineveh
Jeanette C. Fincke

22 Assyrian Legal Traditions
Frederick Mario Fales

23 Assyrian Cities and Architecture
John M. Russell

24 Assyrian Art
John M. Russell

25 Assyrian Technology
Ariel M. Bagg

26 Assyrian Warfare
Stefanie Dalley

27 Some Thoughts on the Assyrian Empire
Mario Liverani

Part IV: The Afterlife and Rediscovery of Assyria

28 Assyria in Late Babylonian Sources
Paul–Alain Beaulieu

29 Assyria in the Hebrew Bible
Eckart Frahm

30 Assyria in Classical Sources
Robert Rollinger

31 The Archaeological Exploration of Assyria
Mogens Trolle Larsen

32 Assyrian Christians
Aaron Michael Butts

List of Assyrian Kings [not certain if needed, not yet included]

Index

Eckart Frahm 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: Einleitung in die Sanherib–Inschriften (1997), Historische und historisch–literarische Texte aus Assur (2009), Neo–Babylonian Letters and Contracts from the Eanna Archive (co–authored with Michael Jursa, 2011), Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries: Origins of Interpretation (2011), and Geschichte des alten Mesopotamien (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.