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24952 results in Ancient history

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  • Chapter 1 - Introduction

  • Jonathan Valk, Spanish National Research Council
  • Book:
    Ancient Assyrians
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    This chapter sets the stage for the work to come, posing the central question about how to understand ancient Assyrian identity in the second millennium bce and how it changed over time. It critiques the concept of ethnicity and explains why grappling with Assyrianness requires a new approach to identity.

  • Chapter 4 - Aššur, King of the Gods

  • Jonathan Valk, Spanish National Research Council
  • Book:
    Ancient Assyrians
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 158-259

  • Summary

    This chapter offers an overview of the Middle Assyrian social world and the construction of Assyrian identity within it. The chapter finds that in the Middle Assyrian period, Assyrianness was an incidental identity with permeable boundaries.

  • Chapter 5 - Conclusion

  • Jonathan Valk, Spanish National Research Council
  • Book:
    Ancient Assyrians
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 260-268

  • Summary

    This chapter summarizes and brings together all the work conducted in the book. It offers an answer to the original question concerning what it meant to be Assyrian in the second millennium bce and how this changed over time.

Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond
  • Edited by Rubina Raja
  • Published online:
    21 October 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025
  • Palmyra is one of the most famous sites of the ancient world and played a major role in the overland trade between the Mediterranean and the East. This volume explores fascinating aspects of Palmyrene archaeology and history that underline the site's dynamic relations with the Roman world, whilst simultaneously acknowledging its extremely local nature. The chapters explore Palmyra as a site, but also Palmyrene society both at home and abroad – as travellers in the then known world and contractors and businesspeople as well as innovative political and military leaders of their time. They illuminate Palmyra's and Palmyrene society's negotiations, struggles, benefits and disadvantages from being part of the Roman Empire, situated on the fringes between the East and the West, and their use of this location to recreate themselves as a central power player – at least for a time – within a rapidly changing world.
Between Yahwism and Judaism

Between Yahwism and Judaism
  • Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)
  • Yonatan Adler
  • Published online:
    18 October 2025
    Print publication:
    04 December 2025
  • This Element seeks to characterize key aspects of the cult and culture of the Judean populace at large, in Judea and the diaspora, during the Early Hellenistic period (332–175 BCE). It asks if this period signals cultural continuity with the Yahwism of the past, or cultural rupture with the emergence Judaism as known from later times. It investigates: administrative structures, whether Torah was widely observed, how and where Judeans performed cultic worship of YHWH and if this had become exclusive of other deities, adoption of Greek cultural elements and what literature was well-known and influential, including “Biblical” literature. It concludes that while no rupture is evident, and the Early Hellenistic period marks a strong degree of continuity with the Yahwism of Persian times, in some senses the era paved a way for the subsequent transition into the Judaism of the future.

  • 10 - Palmyrene Military Expatriation and Its Religious Transfer at Roman Dura-Europos, Dacia and Numidia

  • Edited by Rubina Raja, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book:
    Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond
    Published online:
    21 October 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 212-231

  • Summary

    During the second and third centuries AD, recruitment in the Roman army brought many Palmyrenes from their home city to various parts of the Roman Mediterranean and its hinterland. Military recruitment brought them to Dacia and Numidia in particular, but a famously well-documented unit of Palmyrenes was stationed at Dura-Europos on the Middle Euphrates. Most Palmyrene soldiers served in units of the auxilia or numeri, and many of these then settled in the regions in which they had served. Their descendants could be found in the same regions generations later. As Palmyrene soldiers and their descendants faced varied degrees of dispersal and isolation from their compatriots, they endured diverse pressures to assimilate. They also witnessed their ancestral divinities being adopted by fellow soldiers, military collectives or networks and local populations. Did Palmyrenes maintain social or cognitive links to their ancestral homeland under such circumstances? Did they conceive of themselves as part of a broader, dispersed Palmyrene community even as they became enmeshed in local ones? This chapter address such questions.

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