Displays of Cultural Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant: The Public Presence of Foreign Powers and Local Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781032250533 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

USA.) Thompson Shane M. (North Carolina Wesleyan University

Opis

This book examines power relationships between Late Bronze and Iron Age Levantine rulers and their subjects through the lens of "cultural hegemony", drawing on textual, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence. Suitable for students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern history and those studying power and imperialism.

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List of Figures

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Part I: The Hittites and the Late Bronze Age Northern Levant

2. Epigraphic Evidence for Cultural Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony from Emar

3. Epigraphic Evidence for Cultural Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony from Ugarit

4. Archaeological Evidence from Syria

Part II: Egypt and the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant

5. Egyptian Conceptions and Manifestations of Border in the Southern Levant

6. Egyptian Temples in the Southern Levant

Part III: The Neo-Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians, and the Iron Age Southern Levant

7. Neo-Assyrian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders in the Iron Age Southern Levant

8. Counter-Hegemony in the Iron Age Southern Levant

9. The Neo-Babylonians in the Levant

10. The Neo-Babylonians in the Iron Age Prophets

11. Conclusions

Works Cited

Index

O autorze

Shane M. Thompson (PhD Brown University) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at North Carolina Wesleyan University. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming volumes Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East, Understanding Power in the Ancient Near East, Volume 1: Approaches, and Understanding Power in the Ancient Near East, Volume 2: Manifestations and Responses.