Warfare in the Ancient Near East

Contents

Introduction ??? David B. Schreiner and Shane M. Thompson

The Defences of Hatra. Fortifications, Weapons and Strategy against the Roman and Sassanian Armies during the 2nd and 3rd cent. CE ??? Enrico Foietta

Egyptianising Luttwak? A New Look on the Military Organisation of the Middle Kingdom in Lower Nubia ??? Francesco De Gaetano

Chariots in Ancient Egypt ??? New Insights into a Supposedly Well-known Phenomenon ??? Heidi K??pp-Junk

Shock and Awe: A Multi-Scalar Historical Approach to Trajan???s Military Campaign in Mesopotamia ??? Gabriele Viola

Gesellschaftliches T??tungsverbot und T??ten im Krieg im Alten ??gypten ??? Daniela C. H??rtel

Prisoners of War or Deportees? (Re-)Defining Wartime Captivity in Middle and New Kingdom Egypt ??? Ella Karev

How to Restart a War: Post-War Cycles of Violence in Ancient Egyptian Military Texts ??? James K. Oakley

The Memory of War: Rewriting History in the Assyrian Period ??? Laura Battini

Warrior versus Savior: Royal Rhetorics of War in the First Millennium BCE ??? Jinyan Wang

Between Hero and Villain: Remembering Hezekiah as a Site of Memory in Conjunction with Sennacherib???s Third Military Campaign ??? David B. Schreiner

The Wars of Pharaoh Merneptah and His Celebratory Program at Karnak Temple ??? Mark D. Janzen

Remembering the Violence: Reflections on The Psychological Trauma of War in Biblical Narrative ??? Shane M. Thompson

About the Author

David B. Schreiner (Asbury Theological Seminary) is an Associate Professor of Old Testament and Inductive Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary, where he is also the coordinator of the M. Div. program.

Shane M. Thompson (Ph.D., Brown University) is Associate Professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East in the Religious Studies Program at North Carolina Wesleyan University. His current research focuses on leisure activities, performance, and power relationships in the ancient Near East. He is the author of Displays of Cultural Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant: The Public Presence of Foreign Powers and Local Resistance (Routledge, 2023).