Religion and ideology in Assyria /

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Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, Beate Pongratz-Leisten argues that Assyria as a polity was as much exposed to (and influenced by) Babylonia in the south as it was to the Hittite and Hurrian cultural horizon in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pongratz-Leisten, Beate (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Colección:Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 6.
Temas:
Monarchy > Assyria.
Ideology > Assyria.
Idéologie > Assyrie.
HISTORY > Civilization.
Ideology
Monarchy
Politics and government
Religion
Assyria > Religion.
Assyria > Politics and government.
Middle East > Assyria
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The dynamics of cultural regions and traditions in Mesopotamia and the rise of Assyrian cultural discourse
  • The origins of Assyrian cultural tradition
  • Empire as cosmos, cosmos as empire
  • Narratives of power and the Assyrian notion of kingship
  • Administrator, hunter, warrior : the mythical foundations of the king's role as Ninurta
  • The king's share in divine knowledge
  • Between the fictive and the imaginary
  • The individual ruler as a model for kingship : rethinking ancient historiography
  • The reinvention of tradition : the Assyrian state rituals
  • The voice of the scholar.

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