1450 BCE at the earliest, 5th century BCE latest) and seems to have been adopted by the Assyrians after they had accepted Christianity. The biblical version of the origin of Ashur appears later in the historical record (Genesis is dated to c. A more likely account is that the city was named Ashur after the deity of that name sometime in the 3rd millennium BCE the same god's name is the origin for 'Assyria'. The empire began modestly at the city of Ashur (known as Subartu to the Sumerians), located in Mesopotamia north-east of Babylon, where merchants who traded in Anatolia became increasingly wealthy and that affluence allowed for the growth and prosperity of the city.Īccording to one interpretation of passages in the biblical Book of Genesis, Ashur was founded by a man named Ashur son of Shem, son of Noah, after the Great Flood, who then went on to found the other important Assyrian cities.
The scribes who produced the book drew on this legal principle in order to stitch together disparate and uneven territorial lists into a vision of national unity.Assyria was the region located in the ancient Near East which, under the Neo-Assyrian Empire, reached from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and down through Egypt. This ancient Near Eastern legal principle clarifies three narrative scenes and one section heading in the book of Joshua. The article particularly attends to texts from ancient Israel, Emar, Nineveh, and Hatti that document rights in land being exercised collectively by society’s elders as representatives of society as a whole. This article also outlines the evidence for one agrarian concept in the book that has been neglected by historians, the ancient Near Eastern legal principle according to which rights in land could be exercised collectively. This legal framework clarifies how the agrarian concepts in the background to Joshua relates to one another. This article sketches a broad framework for understanding how land rights functioned in the ancient Near East. However, no single agrarian concept provides a unitary key for understanding the theme of land in the book. Scholars have variously explained the theme of land in the book of Joshua against the background of ancient Near Eastern household, tribal, or royal agrarian legal and social concepts.
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