商品簡介
This is a study of the characteristics of siege warfare in the ancient Near East. Eph'al (emeritus, history, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) draws his information from literary sources, including the Sumerian "Curse of Akkad" and the "Lamentation on the Destruction of Ur," various books of the Bible, royal inscriptions, and the writings of Greek historians; nonliterary documents such as legal documents from places under siege, documents dealing with divination, mathematical texts with engineering exercises concerning siege technology; artistic depictions of siege warfare; and archaeological evidence. He largely eschews chronology, finding it of little importance except in terms of technological developments, and instead seeks to describe the general characteristics of military, legal, economic, and social aspects of sieges. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
ISRAEL EP‘HAL is professor emeritus of History of the Jewish People and of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Leut.-Col. (ret.), IDF. He is author of The Ancient Arabs: Nomads on the Borders of the Fertile Crescent, 9th-5th Centuries BC; (with (J. Naveh) Aramaic Ostraca of the Fourth Century BC from Idumaea, and of papers on the history of the People and the Land of Israel in the 9th-4th centuries BC, on epigraphy, and on ancient Near Eastern military history.
