War and ethics in the ancient Near East : military violence in light of cosmology and history /
The 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, with kings℗þ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
©2009.
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Colección: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ;
407. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ideology and the confrontation of cultures
- Assyrian cosmology
- Judahite and Israelite cosmology
- Ethics of the Assyrian élite
- Ethics of the Judahite and Israelite élite
- Ethics of the non-élite
- Developments in Assyrian ethics
- Developments in Judahite and Israelite ethics I
- Developments in Judahite and Israelite ethics II.