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John S. Holladay, “Assyrian Statecraft and the Prophets of Israel,” Harvard Theological Review (HTR) 63 (1970), p. 29.

See Morris Silver, Prophets and Markets: The Political Economy of Ancient Israel (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1983).

Cogan and Hayim Tadmor, II Kings, The Anchor Bible 11 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1988), pp. 218–220.

Cogan thus rejects Albert Olmstead’s view that “the whole [Assyrian] imperial organization centered around the worship of Ashur, the deified state and reigning king fanatically imposing active worship of Assyrian gods upon defeated populations.” See Cogan, Imperialism and Religion, p. 60.

Mordechai Cogan, Imperialism and Religion: Assyria, Judah and Israel in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries B.C.E. (Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1974).

Pecirková, “The Administrative Methods of Assyrian Imperialism,” p. 175.

J. Pecirková, “The Administrative Methods of Assyrian Imperialism,” Archiv Orientálni 55 (1987), pp. 164–166; Israel Eph’al, “Assyrian Dominion in Palestine,” in The World History of the Jewish People 4/1, ed. Avraham Malamat (Jerusalem: Massada Press, 1979), p. 286; Henry W. F. Saggs, The Greatness That Was Babylon (New York: Hawthorn, 1962), pp. 105–139.

Yigael Yadin, Hazor: The Rediscovery of a Great Citadel of the Bible (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975), p. 151.

Martin Noth, The History of Israel (New York: Harper & Bros., 2nd ed. 1960), p. 250.