For an overview of this period of weakness in Mesopotamia, see J.A. Brinkman, A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158–722 B.C.. (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1968) and D.J. Wiseman, “Assyria and Babylonia c. 1200–1000 B.C.,” in CAH, pp. 443–481.
