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<p>This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopotamian deities, the Assyrian king, and foreign lands are described and depicted. It undertakes a close reading of delimited royal inscriptions and iconography making use of postcolonial and gender theory, and addresses such topics as royal deification, "religious imperialism", ethnicity and empire, and gendered imagery. The important contribution
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- Author
- Mattias Karlsson
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501516191
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Old Testament
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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