성전(holy war) 이데올로기

"Moreover, as vicars and representatives on earth of their national god regarded as standing well above all other gods, they felt it their duty to impose the cult of Ashur in what was for them the whole world. This is general could only be achieved by force, but it did not matter since the king's enemies were ipso facto the god's enemies and therefore wicked devils who deserved to be punished whatever they had done. Thus, brigandry and occasional massacres were justified by the politico-religious ideology of the Assyrians; each of their campaigns was a measure of self-defence, an act of gangsterism but also a crusade."
- Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq, 285.

성전(holy war) 이데올로기가 BCE 10세기 이후 아시리아에서 더욱 견고해졌다고 할 때, 이후 종주권 조약을 통해 제국의 이념을 습득하게되었던 고대유다 히스기야의 서기관들은 '이거구나!' 싶었을 것 같다. Proto-Dtr의 토양은 생각보다 외부적인 요소가 많을 수 있겠다.