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Admonition and Curse - The Ancient Near Eastern Treaty/Covenant Form as a Problem in Inter-Cultural Relationships (Hardcover)
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Admonition and Curse - The Ancient Near Eastern Treaty/Covenant Form as a Problem in Inter-Cultural Relationships (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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The occurrence of treaties throughout the Ancient Near East has
been investigated on a number of occasions, generally in order to
resolve certain questions arising in the biblical field. As a
result of that focus, the existence of a similar institution in a
number of different cultures has not been treated as a problem in
itself. Generally the existence of treaties throughout the area has
been taken for granted, or a simple borrowing model has been used
to explain how similar forms came to be used in different cultures.
Why forms were similar across the area has not been probed. This
work investigates treaty occurrences in different cultures and
finds that the forms used correlate with ways of maintaining
political control both internally and over vassals. Related
concepts are projected in official accounts of history. Thus one
can roughly distinguish threats based on power from persuasion
based on benevolence and historical precedent, though various
combinations of these two occur. There is a likely further
connection of the means chosen to the degree of centralisation of
power within the society. Underlying the local traditions is a
common tradition which has to be dated to the pre-literate period.
Biblical covenants fit within this pattern. The cultures treated
are Mesopotamia, the Hittites, Egypt, Syrian centres and Israel.
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