Using one of the world's richest archaeological datasets, Avraham Faust reconstructs the outcomes of the Assyrian conquest in the southwestern region of the empire. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of Assyrian domination and the transformations of the diverse political and ecological zones the imperial take-over brought in its wake.
Using one of the world's richest archaeological datasets, Avraham Faust reconstructs the outcomes of the Assyrian conquest in the southwestern region of the empire. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of Assyrian domination and the transformations of the diverse political and ecological zones the imperial take-over brought in its wake.
Avraham Faust is Professor of Archaeology at the Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University. He is currently directing the excavations at Tel 'Eton in the Judean Shephelah, and the survey in its vicinity, and he is also the director of "The National Knowledge Center on the History and Heritage of Jerusalem and its Environs". His research interests include the archaeology of ancient Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages (biblical archaeology), especially from social and anthropological perspectives, as well as aspects of settlement archaeology, ethnicity, processes of social complexity, and excavations and survey methods and methodology. He has more than 200 publications, covering various aspects of the region's archaeology from the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, with a special focus on Iron Age society.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction * 2: Before the Empire: The Southern Levant in the 8th century BCE * 3: Under the Empire: Settlement and Demography in the Southwestern Periphery of the Assyrian Empire in the 7th Century BCE * 4: Prosperity, Depression, and the Empire: Economic Developments in the Southwest during the 7th Century BCE * 5: Assyrians in the Southwest? The Evidence for Assyrian Administration and Presence * 6: The Empire in the Southwest: Reconstructing Assyrian Activity in the Provinces * 7: Local Responses to the Empire: From Armed Resistance to Integration * 8: "They Make a Desolation and They Call it Peace": Reexamining the Nature of the Imperial Peace * 9: Empire by Design? Imperial Policies and Planning and the Conquest of the Southwest * 10: A Province Too Far? The Assyrian Empire, its Southwestern Margins, and the Dynamics of Imperial Expansion, Conquest, and Rule
* 1: Introduction * 2: Before the Empire: The Southern Levant in the 8th century BCE * 3: Under the Empire: Settlement and Demography in the Southwestern Periphery of the Assyrian Empire in the 7th Century BCE * 4: Prosperity, Depression, and the Empire: Economic Developments in the Southwest during the 7th Century BCE * 5: Assyrians in the Southwest? The Evidence for Assyrian Administration and Presence * 6: The Empire in the Southwest: Reconstructing Assyrian Activity in the Provinces * 7: Local Responses to the Empire: From Armed Resistance to Integration * 8: "They Make a Desolation and They Call it Peace": Reexamining the Nature of the Imperial Peace * 9: Empire by Design? Imperial Policies and Planning and the Conquest of the Southwest * 10: A Province Too Far? The Assyrian Empire, its Southwestern Margins, and the Dynamics of Imperial Expansion, Conquest, and Rule
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