The city besieged siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
v. 36. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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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.