The Nature of Subversion

Given the current study’s intention to approach the relationship of Deuteronomy to VTE and to Assyria through an examination of the requirements of subversion, it is necessary to begin with a discussion of subversion itself: what it is, where the concept originated, and how it might be achieved. Although theOxford English Dictionaryoffers several current uses for the verb “to subvert,” common to the majority—as well as the root’s noun and adjectival forms—is the negative effects or intentions of the activity described. Thus subversion may be used to refer to the overthrow of a nation, government, ruler,