The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, pp. 381-389, 2023/04/12
Proceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16‒20, 2018
Until the discovery and deciphering of the cuneiform script, the Hebrew Bible was the hermeneutical key for the understanding of Babylonian culture and history in pre-modern European cultural history. The Bible itself comprises diverse answers and reactions to the imperial influences to which its authors were exposed from Assyrian until Roman times. One example is the passages in Deut. 13 and 28 which mirror a reception of elements from the Assyrian loyalty oaths via subversive adoption. As such, this transformation has a powerful impact history even in the philosophical concepts of the state of early modern times.
