Watanabe,Kazuko. — Die adê-Vereidigung anlässlich der Thronfolgeregelung Asarhaddons.

Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag, [1987]. [VII],248 pp. 16 plts with b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering). 4to. (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Baghdad - Baghdader Mitteilungen, Beiheft 3). - Very good copy.An influential German-language scholarly monograph by the Assyriologist Kazuko Watanabe. This publication examines the Assyrian 'adê'-oaths of loyalty, guardianship, or succession-that the Neo-Assyrian king Esarhaddon, in the 7th century BCE, required his vassals and courtiers to swear in favor of his sons (including Ashurbanipal). Watanabe’s work serves as a fundamental frame of reference for the legal and religious history of the ancient Near East, particularly for comparative studies between Neo-Assyrian vassal treaties (or oaths) and biblical texts such as the Book of Deuteronomy.