Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel: Changing Perspectives 5

ISBN-13: 9780367742485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 14 str.

Mario Liverani; Niels Peter Lemche; Emanuel Pfoh

Opis

In this volume Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the ancient Near East.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Editorial note; List of abbreviations; Introduction (Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh); Part I: Ancient Near Eastern Historiography; 1. ‘But in the Seventh Year …’; 2. The Ugaritic epic in its historical and literary context; 3. Memorandum on the approach to historiographic texts; 4. The tribunal of history: Judicial origins of Ancient Near Eastern historiography; Part II: Ideology and Propaganda in the Ancient Near East; 5. Συδύκ and Μισώρ; 6. Holy war and just war in the Ancient Near East; 7. The Pharaoh’s body in the Amarna letters; 8. Ḫattušili dealing with Ramesside propaganda; 9. The ideology of the Assyrian empire; 10. Kingship ideology in Assyria and Israel; 11. The king in the palace; Part III: Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age; 12. Contrasts and confluences of political conceptions in the Amarna period; 13. Political lexicon and political ideologies in the Amarna letters; 14. Refugees in Syria in the Late Bronze Age; 15. Becoming Ḫabiru; Part IV: The Old Testament and the History of Israel; 16. The ‘origins’ of Israel: An unachievable project of ethnogenetic research; 17. New developments in the study of the history of biblical Israel; 18. The Book of Kings and Ancient Near Eastern historiography; Index