This thesis is a study of the ways in which the Late (Neo-) Assyrian empire integrated agricultural practices into its imperial designs. The ancient kingdom of Late Assyria (ca. 900 - 600 BCE) was one of the world's first empires, and at its peak stretched across Iran, Syria, An…
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The relationship between tectonic environment and human activity has a long history that intimately involves the Ancient Near East and Levant. Texts from the third millennium onward attest to earthquake imagery while records of actual earthquakes cluster in two periods in the Mi…
This study examines the early second millennium B.C. Habur Ware assemblage from Tell Leilan/Shubat Enlil in order to integrate a ceramic assemblage of which the painted pottery--Habur Ware--has traditionally been emphasized, divorced from the larger unpainted assemblage. These c…
This dissertation builds on the insights of the “Italian school” (e.g., Liverani, Fales, Zaccagnini, Younger) concerning the ideological shaping of historical narratives. It engages in a literary-ideological analysis of nine West Semitic royal inscriptions from the ninth to the …
Those who study the cognitive development of Homo sapiens maintain that our specialized communication skills evolved from the desire to narrate. Societies define themselves through their histories and their traditional stories; the socio-political significance of narrative in an…
This study is a historical comparison of the use of gendered metaphors in the recording of the Israelite/Assyrian encounter (9th –7th centuries BCE). Beginning with the assumption that gendered language is a tool of ideology expressed metaphorically, the study examines the manip…
Recent work by world-systems theorists such as Chase-Dunn, Hall, Kohl, and Algaze have allowed scholars to apply Immanuel Wallerstein's model of the modern world-system to precapitalist settings. In doing so, they have challenged many of the basic assumptions made by Wallerstein…
The conquest of Egypt constitutes the hallmark of the foreign policy of the Assyrian ruler Esarhaddon. The examination of this issue includes the usage of Esarhaddon's Babylonian policy as a paradigm by which the strategy behind his Egyptian policy can be more clearly understood…
This dissertation uses data from recent archaeological surveys in the upper Tigris river region in southeastern Turkey combined with Neo-Assyrian letters and the annals of the Assyrian kings to investigate the implementation and maintenance of imperialism in three geographic reg…
This study examines several texts from Assyria and from the Hebrew Bible that describe or refer to the exhibition of divine symbols that have been plundered as part of the spoils of war. The exhibition of divine symbols as trophies of war conveyed messages about power relations …
This dissertation investigates the political and economic relationships among Assyria, the Syro-Palestinian states, and Egypt from the reign of Sargon II to the reign of Ashurbanipal; it does so by examining relevant Assyrian and Babylonian writings in a comprehensive and system…
In 1846, the British polymath Austen Henry Layard began archaeological excavations in the mounds of ancient Assyria, approximately twenty miles south of the modern day city of Mosul, Iraq. Uncovering artifacts almost immediately, Layard's discoveries were sent to the British Mus…
This dissertation investigates the political posture of Isaiah during the so-called Syro-Ephraimitic crisis, particularly as it concerned the Judean king Ahaz and his policies. The author argues that throughout the crisis, Isaiah remained a faithful legitimist of the Davidic reg…
This dissertation presents a stylistic, functional and locational analysis of the seals and sealings discovered at the Iron Age settlement of Hasanlu IVB in Northwest Iran (ca. 1100-800 B.C.). The study endeavors to define stylistic criteria for distinguishing imports from local…