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Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC ‘Hamblin’sbookisagoldmineofinformation–bothtextualandarchaeological– onancientNearEasternwarfarebeforetheLateBronzeAge.’ ProfessorRobertDrews,VanderbiltUniversity For many historians, military history began in Classical Greece. Chronologically, however, half of recorded military history occurred before the Greeks rose to military predominance. In this groundbreaking and fascinating study, William J. Hamblin synthesises current knowledge of early ancient Near Eastern military historyinanaccessibleway,fromtheNeolitihicerauntiltheMiddleBronzeAge. Drawing on an extensive range of textual, artistic, and archaeological data, WarfareintheAncientNearEastto1600BCoffersadetailedanalysisofthemilitary technology, ideology, and practices of Near Eastern warfare, focusing on key topics including: recruitment and training of the soldiers; the logistics and weap- onryofwarfare,withemphasisontheshiftfromstonetometalweapons;therole played by magic; narratives of combat and artistic representations of battle; the origins and development of the chariot as a mode of military transportation; for- tificationsandsiegecraft;anddevelopmentsinnaval warfare. Hamblin paysparti- cular attention to the earliest-known examples of holy war ideology in MesopotamiaandEgypt,andarguesthatthiseralaidthefoundationforlaterNear Eastern concepts of holy war, and that such understandings remain of vital sig- nificanceintheworldtoday. Illustrated throughout, including maps of the region, this book is essential for expertsandnon-specialistsalike. William J. Hamblin is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, specializing in Near Eastern and military history. He is co-author of WorldHistoryto1648(1993). Warfare and History General Editor Jeremy Black Professor of History, University of Exeter AirPowerintheAgeofTotalWar MedievalNavalWarfare,1000–1500 JohnBuckley SusanRose TheArmiesoftheCaliphs ModernChineseWarfare,1795–1989 MilitaryandSocietyintheEarlyIslamicState BruceA.Elleman HughKennedy ModernInsurgenciesandCounter-insurgencies TheBalkanWars,1912–1913 GuerrillasandtheirOpponentssince1750 PreludetotheFirstWorldWar IanF.W.Beckett RichardC.Hall MughalWarfare EnglishWarfare,1511–1642 ImperialFrontiersandHighroadstoEmpire MarkCharlesFissel 1500–1700 JosGommans EuropeanandNativeAmericanWarfare, 1675–1815 NavalWarfare,1815–1914 ArmstrongStarkey LawrenceSondhaus EuropeanWarfare,1660–1815 OttomanWarfare,1500–1700 JeremyBlack RhoadsMurphey EuropeanWarfare,1494–1660 ThePeloponnesianWar JeremyBlack Amilitarystudy J.F.Lazenby TheFirstPunicWar J.F.Lazenby Samurai,WarfareandtheStateinEarly MedievalJapan Frontiersmen:WarfareinAfricaSince1950 KarlF.Friday AnthonyClayton GermanArmies SeapowerandNavalWarfare,1650–1830 WarandGermanPolitics,1648–1806 RichardHarding PeterH.Wilson TheSovietMilitaryExperience TheGreatWar1914–1918 RogerR.Reese SpencerC.Tucker Vietnam TheIrishandBritishWars,1637–1654 SpencerC.Tucker Triumph,Tragedy,andFailure JamesScottWheeler TheWarforIndependenceandtheTransformation ofAmericanSociety Israel’sWars,1947–1993 HarryM.Ward AhronBregman WarandtheStateinEarlyModernEurope TheKoreanWar Spain,theDutchRepublicandSwedenas NoVictors,noVanquished Fiscal-militaryStates,1500–1660 StanleySandler JanGlete MedievalChineseWarfare,300–900 WarfareandSocietyinEurope,1792–1914 DavidA.Graff GeoffreyWawro WarfareandSocietyinEurope,1898tothePresent WarfareandSocietyintheBarbarianWest MichaelS.Neiberg GuyHalsall WarfareatSea,1500–1650 WarintheModernWorldsince1815 JanGlete JeremyBlack,editor WarfareinAtlanticAfrica,1500–1800 WorldWarTwo MaritimeConflictsandtheTransformationof AMilitaryHistory Europe JeremyBlack JohnK.Thornton War,PoliticsandSocietyinEarlyModernChina, Warfare,StateandSocietyintheByzantineWorld, 900–1795 565–1204 PeterLorge JohnHaldon WarfareintheAncientNearEast,to1600BC WarintheEarlyModernWorld, HolyWarriorsattheDawnofHistory 1450–1815 WilliamJ.Hamblin editedbyJeremyBlack TheWarsoftheFrenchRevolutionandNapoleon, WarsofImperialConquestinAfrica,1830–1914 1792–1815 BruceVandervort OwenConnelly WesternWarfareintheAgeoftheCrusades, IndianWarsofCanada,Mexicoandthe 1000–1300 UnitedStates,1812–1900 JohnFrance BruceVandervort WarandSocietyinImperialRome, 31BC–AD284 BrianCampbell Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC Holy Warriors at the Dawn of History William J. Hamblin Firstpublished2006 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 270MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness #2006WilliamJ.Hamblin This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilized inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafter invented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageor retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData WarfareintheancientNearEasttoc.1600BC/[editedby]WilliamJ.Hamblin. p.cm.–(Warfareandhistory) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Militaryartandscience–MiddleEast–History.2.MiddleEast–History, Military–To1500.I.Hamblin,WilliamJames.II.Series. U31.W372005 355’.00939’409013--dc22 2005006029 ISBN10:0-415-25589-9(pbk) ISBN10:0-415-25588-0(hbk) ISBN13:978-0-415-25589-9(pbk) ISBN13:978-0-415-25588-2(hbk) For Loree, Ken, Karen and Alex – of course For Scott Nelson: the Better Man And for Blake Donner, who dared to dream of a world without war ‘‘Mightiest of the mighty, hero in battle, let me sing his song!’’ Gilgamesh and the Bull ofHeaven, Sumer, c. 2000 BCE (EOG 169)
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