A Companion to Assyria

1. Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria
2. “Assyria” in the Third Millennium bce
3. The Old Assyrian Period (20th–18th Century bce)
4. Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Old Assyrian Period
5. The Transition Period (17th to 15th Century bce)
6. The Middle Assyrian Period (14th to 11th Century bce)
7. Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Middle Assyrian Period
8. The Neo‐Assyrian Period (ca. 1000–609 bce)
9. Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Neo‐Assyrian Period
10. Post‐Imperial Assyria
11. Assyria and the North: Anatolia
12. Assyria and the East: Western Iran and Elam
13. Assyria and the West: Syria and the Levant
14. Assyria and the Far West: The Aegean World
15. Assyria and the South: Babylonia
16. Assyria and the Far South: The Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf
17. Languages and Writing Systems in Assyria
18. Assyrian Religion
19. Assyrian Literature
20. Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Ashur
21. Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Kalḫu and Nineveh
22. Assyrian Legal Traditions
23. Assyrian Cities and Architecture
24. Assyrian Art
25. Assyrian Technology
26. Assyrian Warfare
27. Thoughts on the Assyrian Empire and Assyrian Kingship
28. Assyria in Late Babylonian Sources
29. Assyria in the Hebrew Bible
30. Assyria in Classical Sources
31. The Archaeological Exploration of Assyria
32. Assyrian Christians
33. List of Assyrian Kings

A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding of society and life in this ancient civilization. The only detailed up-to-date introduction providing a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty years Original essays written and edited by a team of respected Assyriology scholars from around the world An in-depth exploration of Assyrian society and life, including the latest thought on cities, art, religion, literature, economy, and technology, and political and military history