Assur Is King! Assur Is King! Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Steven Holloway's work is the first monograph devoted to Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism. Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism was expressed by punitive measures such as "godnapping," the violent deportation of a vanquished foe's divine images, but also, and this is a far less-studied facet of this topic, by the geographical focus and extent of the material support the Assyrians lavished on favored polities, in effect a Marshall Plan aimed at winning over the elite citizenry pivotal to maintaining economic and political equilibrium.Holloway, Steven W. is the author of 'Assur Is King! Assur Is King! Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire' with ISBN 9789004123281 and ISBN 9004123288.