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This article expands our understanding of the historical development of just war thought by offering the first detailed ana-
lysis of the ethics of war in ancient Egypt. It revises the standard history of the just war tradition by demonstrating that just
war thought developed beyond the boundaries of Europe and existed many centuries earlier than the advent of
Christianity or even the emergence of Greco-Roman doctrine. It also argues that the creation of a prepotent ius ad bellum
Johnson (1981, 1984, 1999, 2011) has long stressed the Despite the chronological and cultural distance be-
importance of a historical understanding of the just war tween them, rethinking modern assumptions in the light
tradition. An increasing body of work draws our atten- of ancient doctrines and practices can be illuminating.
tion to the pre-Christian origins of just war thought.1 On the one hand, I highlight how absolutist or universaliz-
Nonetheless, scholars and politicians continue to over- ing concepts of justice can generate potent ius ad bellum
draw the association between Christian political the- doctrines. On the other hand, I caution that prepotent ius
ology and the advent of just war thought. This ad bellum doctrines can make the resort to war more likely
reinforces the common misconception that just war is and, by hindering the development or application of ius
an exclusively Christian doctrine, and, in consequence, in bello norms, more destructive. Indeed, I suggest that as-
“curtails its appeal in parts of the world that historically sumptions of universal justice continue to have a negative
have no affinity with Christianity” (O’Driscoll 2015, 1–2). impact upon modern conflicts.
This article strengthens and expands the scope of the This article concentrates on Egyptian ideology and war-
historical just war argument by demonstrating that com- fare during the three major periods of centralized mon-
plex considerations of the relationship between war and
archy: the Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE), Middle
justice existed more than two thousand years prior to the
Kingdom (2055–1650 BCE), and New Kingdom (1552–
advent of Christianity. In providing the first major expos-
ition of the ancient Egyptian ethics of war, I offer further 1069 BCE).3 During this time the Egyptians suffered and
evidence that just war thought developed beyond the trad- repulsed invasions while also pursuing imperialist policies
itional boundaries of Europe. Moreover, I identify some of their own in Nubia (modern southern Egypt and north-
compelling (albeit speculative) reasons to think that elem- ern Sudan), Libya, and Syria-Palestine.4 The Egyptian
ents of Egyptian thought about war might have influenced state engaged in warfare and diplomacy with a variety of
the later Western tradition.2 states and peoples over the course of its long history.
There existed no “international organizations, law codes
or jurists” between the third and first millennia BCE, but
Rory Cox is Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of St. we can detect “a recognizable international legal commu-
Andrews, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Associate Director of the nity” in the area from the Nile to the Tigris-Euphrates
Institute of Intellectual History, St. Andrews: http://www.intellectualhistory. (Ziskind 1967, 202–3).5 Within this international legal
net. His research focuses on the history of the just war tradition and military community, Egypt developed its own distinctive ethics of
conduct, from antiquity to the present day.
war, yet scholars pay little attention to the emergence of
Author’s note: I would like to thank Anthony F. Lang Jr. and Cian
O’Driscoll for their insightful and instructive comments on an early draft of
Egyptian just war thought.6
this article. My thanks also go to the three anonymous reviewers and the edi-
2
torial team at ISQ for their detailed feedback in preparing the article for pub- For further discussion, see Supplemental Information: Appendix 1,
lication. I was fortunate to spend June 2016 as a Visiting Fellow at the “Egyptian Culture and the West.”
3
Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, where I gave a version of Dates should be taken as approximate. The dating of Egyptian dynastic
this article as a seminar paper. I express my warm gratitude to all the fellows periods and the reign lengths of pharaohs remains subject to debate: I have
and participants for their astute questions and suggestions. followed the date system used in Morkot (2010).
1 4
For Greek and Roman just war thought: Ober (1994); Bellamy (2006, 15– See Supplemental Information: Appendix 2, “Note on Ancient Egyptian
20); Reichberg, Syse, and Begby (2006, 3–59); Syse (2006, 2010); Lanni Warfare.”
5
(2008); Neff (2008, 13–38); Raymond (2010); Cox (2015, 2–4); O’Driscoll Munn-Rankin (1956); Ziskind (1967, 43–44, 203). The attempt to recon-
(2015). Nevertheless, the focus remains fixed on the West. Some, notably struct an ancient Near Eastern legal system goes back to Selden (1640). For
Kelsay (1993, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010), have attempted to incorporate non- subsequent early attempts, see Ziskind (1967, 2–3). For the legal-diplomatic
Western traditions into the debate. See also the collections of comparative systems of Egypt and other Near Eastern powers, see Korosec (1931), Ziskind
essays in Johnson and Kelsay (1990), Kelsay and Johnson (1991), Brekke (1967), Pritchard (1969, 159–223; 2011, 150–225), Bederman (2001, 16–31,
(2006), and Hensel (2010). 137–54), Westbrook (2003).
Cox, Rory. (2017) Expanding the History of the Just War: The Ethics of War in Ancient Egypt. International Studies Quarterly, doi: 10.1093/isq/sqx009
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372 Expanding the History of the Just War: The Ethics of War in Ancient Egypt
The ethics of war in ancient Egypt was founded upon on behalf of Amun-Re—whose support was tacit—but also
three tenets of Egyptian culture that displayed remarkable on his own authority as a quasi-divine being. This built on
longevity and consistency: 1) the cosmological role of earlier royal ideology. During the Old Kingdom, the au-
Egypt, 2) the divine office of the pharaoh, and 3) the su- thority of the terrestrial “son of Horus” to act with impun-
periority of the land of Egypt and its inhabitants over all ity against Egypt’s neighbors was so axiomatic that “no
other lands and peoples. These ideological foundations king felt the need to justify such action” (Redford 1995,
led the Egyptian political elite to develop an ethics of war 165). Menu (2003, 53) interprets the Old Kingdom
that possessed elements analogous to later Western con- Pyramid Texts as presenting war as self-legitimizing—“a
cepts of proper authority and just cause: so-called ius ad way for the king to fulfill his obligations with regard to his
bellum criteria. The relationship between war and justice subjects, and a validation of his functions, regarding his
in Egyptian culture was so intimate that we can identify an status as a god-king.”10
ancient Egyptian just war doctrine. Egyptian pharaohs To reaffirm his relationship with the gods and to em-
claimed exclusive possession of legitimate authority and phasize the divine sanction of military ventures, pharaohs
just cause in warfare. In contrast, while the conduct of visited cult centers—especially Karnak—prior to embark-
Egyptian warfare followed a small number of norms, the ing on campaigns. Here the pharaoh would “receive” com-
6
See Supplemental Information: Appendix 3, “Ancient Egyptian Ethics of
War: A Brief Historiographical Outline.”
7
The ancient Egyptians would not have recognized terms such as ius ad bel-
10
lum and ius in bello. They are used here simply to highlight how Egyptian con- “La guerre est a la fois un moyen, pour le roi, de remplir ses obligations
cepts and practices articulated values that bear direct comparison to features a l’égard de ses sujets, et une valorisation de ses fonctions, de son statut de
of the later just war tradition. roi-dieu.” My translation.
8 11
The precise nature of the pharaoh’s divinity remains a subject of debate. This was certainly practiced during and after the New Kingdom and was
Earlier scholarship tended to emphasize the divinity of the pharaoh probably practiced much earlier: Baines (1995, 23); Gnirs and Loprieno
(Frankfort 1948, 24–47; 143–212); however, some recent scholarship (Posener (2009, 249); Spalinger (2013, 97).
12
1960; Hornung 1983, 139–42; Baines 1995, 6, 9) has stressed the pharaoh’s Carnarvon Tablet I in Pritchard (1969, 232–33).
13
human attributes. Nonetheless, some scholars remain willing to refer to the Poetical Stela of Merneptah in Lichtheim (1973, 2, 75); cf. Pritchard (1969,
“deified ruler” (Silverman 1995, 72, 80, 85, 87; Menu 2003, 55), especially 376–78).
14
Amenhotep III and Ramses II. Poetical Stela of Thutmose III in Lichtheim (1973, 2, 36). See also Tale of
9
Berlin 3029 in Lichtheim (1973:1, 117). Sinuhe: Parkinson (2009, 38); Lichtheim (1973, 2, 41).
R O RY C O X 373
Egypt (Shaw 1991, 7). This concept of divine sovereignty law, or private religion, Egyptians subscribed to a basic
and jurisdiction was repeated throughout Egyptian texts moral causality, which held that good actions brought
and iconography. It highlights the crucial link in Egyptian positive consequences while evil actions brought negative
culture between authority and legitimate warfare. consequences.19 This was central to ideas of good govern-
The authority of the pharaoh to wage war stemmed ment, with violence and avarice being commonly recog-
not only from his divine office but also from the unique nized as key expressions of injustice.20 This understanding
cosmological status of his kingdom. Egypt was regarded of justice stipulated that it was morally right that enemies
as the terrestrial embodiment of the universal politico- of Egypt—cast as violators of order and justice (Ma’at)—
theological principle of order and justice: Ma’at. This should bear the evil consequences of punitive war and de-
pivotal attribute made Egypt and Egyptians superior to feat. Such enemies were, by definition, evil, and all actions
all other lands and peoples.15 Ma’at—personified as a against them were justified as part of a natural system of
female deity—appears as a principle of right action reciprocity and retribution. Of course, this conception of
early in Egyptian history.16 But the creative harmony of justice was entirely stacked in favor of the Egyptians. Ma’at
Ma’at was perpetually threatened by the destructive resided in Egypt, and the pharaoh was the sole guardian
forces of chaos (Isfet), which the Egyptians identified and absolute judge of matters pertaining to Ma’at.
departed on campaign “in valor, might, and right, to over- Middle Kingdom ruler, Senusret I, justified horrific acts
throw that wretched enemy, to extend the borders of of violence against those implicated in civil war on the
Egypt, his father, mighty and victorious Amun, having basis that they were legitimate punishments for rebellion
commanded that he conquer.”26 The universal sovereignty and for the destruction of religious property within
of the Egyptian monarch sanctioned the violent subjuga- Egypt:
tion of “barbarian” lands:
[A]s for them that had transgressed against this
I [Amun-Re] came to let you tread on those of Asia. . . house (the temple at Tod). My Majesty made [a
I came to let you tread on eastern lands. . . great slaughter among them. . .] both men and
I came to let you tread on western lands. . . women, the valleys being filled with rows (?) (of ca-
I came to let you tread on lowlanders. . . davers), the mountains bearing sheaves (of corpses);
I came to let you tread on islanders. . . the enemy from the “Terraces” were placed on the
brazier—it was death by fire because of what they
I let them see your majesty as the avenger. . .
had done against it. . .the young were sawn up, the
I came to let you tread on earth’s limits. . .27 children of the enemy were like sacrificial victims.33
await the infantry and chariotry of another town, inside baskets that were then smuggled into the city
then sit still until his troops come. Fight when he pro- (Pritchard 1969, 23).44
poses. . .let them be challenged to battle in advance,
saying: “You whose name we do not know. . .form
Treatment of the Enemy
your battle line, and know that Amun is the god who
sent us!”39 The vast majority of evidence surviving from ancient
Egypt creates the strong impression that Egyptians re-
The order forbidding night attacks suggests that such garded foreigners and enemies with contempt.
operations were somehow dishonorable, and is reminis- Egyptians considered the “vile Asiatic” to be “the pain of
cent of the condemnation of Asiatics as thieves who do the place where he is.”45 Typical of this attitude is
not declare war (above). However, Piye’s decision to allow Senusret III’s description of Nubian enemies: “They are
his enemy time to gather troops was more likely strategic— not people one respects, They are wretches, craven-
to force a decisive battle—than “chivalric” (Chevereau hearted.”46 But, Egyptians dismissed such “barbarians”
1999). The order forbidding night attacks and to “fight as cowardly and as a constant blight to “civilized”
society.
In contrast, some of the earliest artefacts from ancient other foe was taken upstream to the land of Nubia
Egypt provide evidence of the deliberate mutilation of and hanged to the wall of Napata, to show his maj-
enemy corpses. The Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE, Figure 1) esty’s victories forever and ever in all lands and all
shows the triumphant pharaoh inspecting rows of decapi- countries. . .59
tated corpses.53 It was standard practice for the enemy
dead to be counted by the number of hands, ears, or On a separate occasion, Amenhotep II presided over a
phalli collected after battle. In return for presenting these mass holocaust of enemy prisoners of both sexes and all
trophies to the military commander, warriors were ages, demonstrating that the risk of summary execution
awarded the “Gold of Valor” or “Gold of Favor.”54 This extended to non-elite prisoners as well.60 Amenhotep II
practice is attested in the Biography of Amenemheb : “I made was not alone in perpetrating humiliating brutalities upon
captives in the king’s presence; I took a hand there, and his enemies. During Merneptah’s reign, Libyan captives
he gave me the Gold of Favor” (Pritchard 1969, 241). were “impaled to the south of Memphis, des-
Ahmose son of Abana boasted that he had “been re- troyed. . .carried off to Egypt and fire was hurled against
warded with gold seven times” in return for presenting their multitude in the presence of their relatives (?). (As
hands to the pharaoh.55 An inscription at Karnak from to) the remainder, their hands were cut off because of
patriarchal nature of Egyptian warfare and iconographic humiliation to the enemy. Seen in this broader chronolo-
conventions rather than a recognition of non-combatant gical and geographical perspective, the execution of pris-
immunity. Depicting the pharaoh triumphing over oners of war should be recognized as a normative feature
women and children did little to enhance the king’s mar- of the historical practice and ethics of warfare.
tial status. Equally, in representing the victory of good
(pharaoh) over evil (enemy soldiers), women and chil- Destruction of Property
dren were superfluous to the needs of the scene.73
Nonetheless, female captives were a valuable element of The pharaoh’s de iure right to preserve or destroy enemy
military booty and were forced to endure the usual sexual captives was extended to enemy property. During cam-
exploitation suffered by women caught up in wars over paigns, the Egyptian army either consumed or looted
the centuries. The Israelite Deuteronomic code may have movable property. Immovable property was prone to de-
attempted to bestow a very small measure of protection struction, and campaign records testify to the deliberate
for female captives (Dt. 21:10–14), but there is no evi- targeting of agricultural resources, both cereal and arbor-
dence for any equivalent rule in Egypt.74 eal.78 Egyptian armies had employed ravaging since at
There remains disagreement among Egyptologists least Dynasty VI (c. 2345–2181 BCE), as described in the
sacred space also seems to have been largely absent. This land of Egypt.” If either side violated the sacred contract,
disregard for the enemy’s sacred space or objects probably the gods of Hatti and Egypt would “destroy his house, his
resulted from notions of Egyptian religious superiority land, and his servants.”86
and the link between state gods and state wars. As it was What this treaty shows is that ancient Egyptians con-
believed that gods sanctioned the wars of political com- ceived of war and peace as existing within a framework of
munities, gods (or rather, their temples) shared in the re- divine and mundane international relations and law.
wards of success but also the losses of defeat (Ziskind Egyptians generally viewed hostile relations between states
1967, 143). as less felicitous than peaceful relations, but war was an
On the periphery of war, foreign envoys enjoyed guar- ethically and legally acceptable instrument of retribution,
antees for their safety and played a crucial role in negoti- aggrandizement, and political control. Moreover, it was
ating formal international treaties. Evidence for such trea- evidently a normal feature of New Kingdom international
ties originates in Egypt from at least the second relations that future military ventures were subject to the
millennium BCE but probably existed earlier. It includes obligations of treaties such as that between Ramses II and
defensive and offensive treaties as well as neutrality agree- Hattusilis. Allies of Egypt could achieve a degree of legal
ments.81 The gods acted as witnesses to treaties, and oaths symmetry, although the wording of the Egyptian version
and political ideals pose numerous interpretative prob- under the universal jurisdiction of the pope (Brundage
lems.88 It is no coincidence that Egyptian just war ideol- 1995a, 162–63). Thus, Christians and non-Christians alike
ogy, which stressed unity and authority around the person were subject to the pope’s justice. However, canonists,
of the king, was promoted most vigorously during the theologians, and other medieval commentators placed
periods of centralized monarchy. Yet the three major king- very few limitations on the prosecution of wars in defense
dom periods that I have examined were separated by of the faith, resulting in warfare characterized by extreme
prolonged “intermediate” periods marked by civil war, for- brutality.92
eign occupation, and a fracturing of the Egyptian state The religious character of the Egyptian state, and the
into a number of competing territorial units. The sharp distinction made between Egypt (governed by
Egyptian ethics of war developed, therefore, in conjunc- Ma’at) and foreign lands (ruled by Isfet), encourages com-
tion with attempts to reinforce waxing or waning royal au- parison to medieval Islamic distinctions between the Dar
thority. Consequently, it is perhaps more a projection of al-Islam (House of Islam, that is, peace) and the Dar al-
political ideals than a reflection of political reality. Harb (House of War). Like the pharaoh’s duty to maintain
The precise historicity of representations of brutality in Ma’at, it was the duty of the Muslim head of state to main-
ancient Egyptian sources need not overly concern us tain Islam.93 There are further parallels with radical interpret-
characterized as barbaric—against whom extreme vio- principles of law. When the authors claim that interven-
lence was permissible.99 tions must strengthen the idea and rule of law, what they
The wars of ancient Egypt are far removed from mod- really mean is that interveners must establish Western liberal
ern conflict. However, assumptions of, or claims to, uni- democratic law. Thus, the imposition of the “rule of law”
versal or absolute justice in war are not consigned to the through interventionism constitutes, in itself, a form of
distant past or to the modern extremist fringe. As legal-cultural imperialism. These assumptions and object-
Morkevicius (2015, 13, 16–20) highlights, states display a ives are, somewhat ironically, more than a little reminis-
tendency to “conflate national and universal conceptions cent of the ancient Egyptian attitude to universal justice
of the good”; moreover, both realism and just war theory and law.
are grounded in assumptions of universality, pertaining ei- Uncompromising interpretations of justice, combined
ther to the essential rationality of the state system or to with the veneration of a singular political order, can pro-
the existence of universal moral norms. duce sophisticated and powerful just war doctrines.
Rengger (2013, 1–2, 8–9, 31–35, 106, 158–79) critiques However, the conviction that justice and war are interre-
the modern amalgamation of the just war as a punitive in- lated clearly offers no guarantee that the destructiveness
strument to combat injustice with concepts of the liberal of war will be reduced. Indeed, it may in fact make war
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