The Late Old Babylonian period (1711-1595 B.C.) was at the end of 500 years of "uninterrupted textual production in lower Mesopotamia" (from the preface), and it was a time of political instability. S
In Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem, twelve scholars of the ancient world examine the histories, myths, and tales that formed around the Assyrian campaign of 701 B.C.E. over the course of more th
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, this book argues that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of w
