Article Title

The Message of the Broken Bow

Authors

Keywords

Alan Goff, Jewish Quarterly Review, "The Breaking of the Bow", ancient Babylon

Abstract

Alan Goff has turned up an interesting article in the 1978 Jewish Quarterly Review entitled "The Breaking of the Bow." It appears, from ancient Babylonian sources, that bows were symbols of political power. One thinks also of Odysseus bending the bow to prove himself. An overlord would break the bow of a disobedient vassal to symbolical ly put the rebel in his place.

Recommended Citation

(1984) "The Message of the Broken Bow," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 4: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol4/iss1/9