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Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) Ser.: Religion and Ideology in Assyria by Beate Pongratz-Leisten (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDE Gruyter, Inc.

ISBN-101501515772

ISBN-139781501515774

eBay Product ID (ePID)9038694436

Product Key Features

Number of Pages570 Pages

Publication NameReligion and Ideology in Assyria

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAncient / General, General, History / Ancient & Classical, Middle East / General

Publication Year2017

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Philosophy, History

AuthorBeate Pongratz-Leisten

SeriesStudies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight34.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Series Volume Number6

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal935/.03

SynopsisAddressing 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 the north, and that this exposure was clearly reflected in the formulation and development of Assyria's royal ideology., 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., Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this book reconstructs the cultural discourse of Assyria from the third through the first millennium BCE. Ideology is delineated here as a subdiscourse of religion rather than as an independent category, anchoring it firmly within the religious world view. Tracing Assur's cultural interaction with the south on the one hand, and with the Syro-Anatolian horizon on the other, this volume articulates a "northern" cultural discourse that, even while interacting with southern Mesopotamian tradition, managed to maintain its own identity. It also follows the development of tropes and iconic images from the first city state of Uruk and their mouvance between myth, image, and royal inscription, historiography and myth, and myth and ritual, suggesting that, with the help of scholars, key royal figures were responsible for introducing new directions for the ideological discourse and for promoting new forms of historiography.