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Much ado about Marduk : questioning discourses of royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian literature /
The king in ancient Mesopotamia is often viewed as a figure above reproach. This volume problematizes this assumption through a critical investigation of several Akkadian texts that challenge royal policy. In most cases, the questions raised by these texts pertain to the king's relationship to...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Walter de Gruyter Inc.,
[2017]
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| Collection: | Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ;
v. 16. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Standard Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Reading Counterdiscursive Texts in the First Millennium BC
- Chapter 2. The Kassite Revolution
- Chapter 3. The Library of Assurbanipal and the Counterdiscursive Landscape
- Chapter 4. The "Babylonian Problem" and Scribal Dialogues of Counterdiscursiveness
- Chapter 5. Counterdiscursiveness beyond belles lettres in and out of Nineveh
- Chapter 6. Textual Hegemony and the Counterdiscursive Public
- Epilogue. The Legacy of Late Akkadian Countertexts
- Bibliography
- Index.