Relations of Power in Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology
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| Verlag | De Gruyter |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 507 |
| Format | 15,5 x 3,1 x 23,0 cm |
| Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur | |
| Gewicht | 768 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) 10 |
| ISBN-10 | 1501516191 |
| EAN | 9781501516191 |
| Bestell-Nr | 50151619UA |
Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest historical periods to Late Antiquity. The aim of this series is to present in-depth studies of the written and material records left by the civilizations and cultures that populated the various areas of the Ancient Near East: Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Syria. Thus, SANER is open to all sorts of works that have something new to contribute and which are relevant to scholars and students within the continuum of regions, disciplines, and periods that constitute the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, as well as to those in neighboring disciplines, including Biblical Studies, Classics, and Ancient History in general.
Klappentext:
This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopotamian deities, the Assyrian king, and foreign lands are described and depicted. It undertakes a close reading of delimited royal inscriptions and iconography making use of postcolonial and gender theory, and addresses such topics as royal deification, "religious imperialism", ethnicity and empire, and gendered imagery. The important contribution of this study lies especially in its identification of patterns of ideological continuity and variation within the reigns of individual rulers, between various localities, and between the different rulers of this period, and in its discussion of the place of Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology in the overall development of Assyrian propaganda. It includes several indexed appendices, which list all primary sources, present all divine and royal epithets, and provide all of the "royal visual repres entations," and incorporates numerous illustrations, such as maps, plans, and royal iconography.