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Finn Jennifer |
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Much ado about Marduk : questioning discourses of royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian literature / / Jennifer Finn |
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Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : Walter de Gruyter Inc., , 2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records ; ; Volume 16 |
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Soggetti |
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Assyro-Babylonian literature |
Marduk (Babylonian deity) |
Electronic books. |
Iraq History To 634 Kings and rulers |
Assyria History Sources |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume challenges that general assumption, by presenting an analysis of the motivations,methods, and motifs behind a scholarly discourse about kingship that arose in the final stages of the last Mesopotamian empires. The focus of the volume is the proliferation of a literature that problematizes authority in the Neo-Assyrian period, when texts first begin to specifically explore various modalities for critique of royalty. |
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