War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East: Military Violence in Light of Cosmology and HistoryThe 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. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
Part I Ideology cosmology and ethics | 13 |
Part II Ethics and society | 33 |
Part III Ethics and history | 117 |
11 Conclusions | 191 |
Backmatter | 197 |
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