Southern Levant under Assyrian Domination

Shawn Zelig Aster is Senior Lecturer in the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology and the Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University.Avraham Faust is Professor of Archaeology in the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University.

• List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments1 The Southern Levant under Assyrian Domination: An IntroductionAvraham Faust and Shawn Zelig Aster2 The Assyrian Century in the Southern Levant: An Overview of the Reality on the Ground Avraham Faust3 The Assyrian Provinces of the Southern Levant: Sources, Administration, and Control Peter Zilberg4 Treaty and Prophecy: A Survey of Biblical Reactions to Neo-Assyrian Political Thought Shawn Zelig Aster5 “Your Servant and Son I Am”: Aspects of the Assyrian Imperial Experience of Judah Amitai Baruchi-Unna6 The Assyrian Influence on the Architecture of Hospitality in the Southern Levant David Kertai7 Neo-Assyrian Involvement in the Southern Coastal Plain of Israel: Old Concepts and New Interpretations Alexander Fantalkin8 On Phoeniciaʼs Trade Relations with Philistia and Judah under the Assyrian Hegemony: The Ceramic Evidence Lily Singer-Avitz9 The Beirut Decree and Mesopotamian Imperial Policy toward the Levant Yigal Bloch10 The Last Days of Cuneiform in Canaan: Speculations on the Coins from Samaria Wayne HorowitzIndexes

“With regard to Assyrian involvement in the southern Levant, this volume provides both broad overviews of the data as well as in-depth studies on particular topics. Although each essay has its own merits, a strength of the book is the diversity of approaches employed in analyzing the various data in order to reconstruct Assyrian domination.”—Anthony P. SooHoo Orientalia