War, Peace and Empire: Justifications for War in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

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This monograph aims to provide the explanations for going to war as proclaimed within the Assyrian royal inscriptions. The investigation is in keeping with the presumption that we will be able to distill from the professes “casus belli” the basic religious and moral ideas in addition to the political ideology of Assyrian kingship and empire. As well as, this study tries to decide the literary conventions employed in presenting the causes for war. This monograph is only the primary a part of a comprehensive and comparative study on “causus belli” within the royal inscriptions from the Ancient Near East.

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