Suchergebnisse

Preliminary Material -- 1. État de la question -- 2. Historique de la période néo-assyrienne -- 3. Les machines de siège néo-assyriennes -- 4. Le matériel de siège néo-assyrien -- 5. Le personnel de siège néo-assyrien -- 6. Les techniques de siège néo-assyriennes -- 7. Phases chronologiques d'un siège -- 8. Conclusion -- 9. Annexes -- Bibliographie -- Index des auteurs modernes -- Plaques.

Prophecy as Construct : Ancient and Modern / Martti Nissinen -- Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh Archives / Robert P. Gordon -- Prophecy in K1285? Re-evaluating the Divine Speech Episodes of Nabû / Jason Atkinson -- Hosea and the Assyrians / Hans M. Barstad -- Micah in Neo-Assyrian Light / Bob Becking -- Ištar and the Motif of the Cosmological Warrior : Assurbanipal's Adaptation of Enuma Elish / C.L. Crouch -- The Post-722 and Late Pre-exilic Compositions Underlying the Amos-Text / Graham Hamborg -- Royal Cultic Prophecy in Assyria, Judah, and Egypt / John W. Hilber -- Ecology, Theology, Society : Physical, Religious, and Social Disjuncture in Biblical and Neo-Assyrian Prophetic Texts / Hilary Marlow -- The Prophet Micah and Political Society / David J. Reimer -- Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: Are We Comparing Apples and Pears? The Materiality of Writing and the Avoidance of Parallelomania / Joachim Schaper -- "I Have Rained Stones and Fiery Glow on Their Heads!" Celestial and Meteorological Prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Jonathan Stökl -- Were the Neo-Assyrian Prophets Intercessors? A Comparative Study of Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew Texts / Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer -- Isaiah : Prophet of Weal or Woe? / H.G.M. Williamson

PH.D. ; In this study, I engage with the state arts and texts of the ancient Neo-Assyrian (911–612 B.C.E.) to examine the extent to which Neo-Assyrian kings relied on the proper construction and performance of hegemonic masculinity to negotiate and legitimate their exercise of rule. Methodologically, this multimodal study in the different media employed by Neo-Assyrian statecraft will employ the critical tools of Assyriology along with feminist theories and masculinities studies, archaeological, art historical and psychoanalytic critical paradigms, to analyse both visual and textual representations in order to trace the construction of masculinities not only of individual kings but also of the 'monarchy' and the 'state hierarchy' as expressions of shifting hegemonic masculinities. It will be shown that masculinities were central to the discourse and legitimation of rule, that the state and the ruler were entirely dependent on notions of masculinity expressed as virile military prowess in battle and in diplomatic encounters, domination over men and animals, as well as the management of the reproductive abilities of persons born with male genitals. This study will then focus on the late Sargonid reigns of Sennacherib (704–681 B.C.E.), Esarhaddon (680–669 B.C.E.) to discuss not only the longue durée of gender construction and performance but also to trace internal developments and reconfigurations which indicate that within the time frame of empire, masculinities were not monolithic but were, rather, constructed and performed differently depending not only on the socio-political circumstances of the time but also on the media at issue. References will also be made to other Neo-Assyrian sovereigns in general, and to Assurbanipal (668–630 B.C.E.) in particular. This study will also investigate the way royal masculinities were constructed through the contradictory discourse of symbiosis with and dominance over the Other, namely animals and castrated males. It is hoped that this study will not only elucidate the importance of masculinities as ideological state apparatuses and as tools for hegemonic ideology within the Neo-Assyrian Empire, but that it will initiate a dialogue on the role played by gender in general, and masculinities in particular, in the establishment and maintenance of political formations and imperial projects in past societies as well as today through the lens of the ancient Near East. ; N/A