Edward Stratford: A Year of Vengeance / A Year of Vengeance

This study proposes a new historical approach to Old Assyrian economic texts and archives – most especially the archive of Pūšu-kēn. Drawing on the work of Paul Ricoeur, it seeks to understand economic documents and interactions from within an historico-narrative framework. Rather than treating the data isolation, this study seeks to reconstruct the larger series of economic exchanges and relations in which their significance can be understood.