1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792965803321

Autore

Finn Jennifer

Titolo

Much ado about Marduk : questioning discourses of royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian literature / / Jennifer Finn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : Walter de Gruyter Inc., , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5015-0498-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages)

Collana

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records ; ; Volume 16

Classificazione

BE 6405

Disciplina

935/.03

Soggetti

Assyro-Babylonian literature

Marduk (Babylonian deity)

Iraq History To 634 Kings and rulers

Assyria History Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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. This development is symptomatic of a larger discourse about the limits



of power that emerges after the repatriation of Marduk's statue to Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in the 12th century BCE. From this point onwards, public attitudes toward Marduk provide a framework for the definition of proper royal behavior, and become a point of contention between Assyria and Babylonia. It is in this historical and political context that several important Akkadian compositions are placed. The texts are analyzed from a new perspective that sheds light on their original milieux and intended functions.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830793203321

Autore

Lehmann Volker

Titolo

The electrochemistry of silicon : instrumentation, science, materials and applications

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Wiley VCH, 2002

ISBN

1-280-55771-0

9786610557714

3-527-60027-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Disciplina

546/.68357

Soggetti

Silicon - Electric properties

Inorganic Chemistry

Chemistry

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

Silicon has been and will most probably continue to be the dominant material in semiconductor technology. Although the defect-free silicon single crystal is one of the best understood systems in materials science, its electrochemistry to many people is still a kind of "alchemy". This view is partly due to the interdisciplinary aspects of the topic: physics meets chemistry at the silicon-electrolyte interface. This book



gives a comprehensive overview of this important aspect of silicon technology as well as examples of applications ranging from photonic crystals to biochips. It will serve materials scientists as well as engineers involved in silicon technology as a quick reference with its more than 150 technical tables and diagrams and ca. 1000 references cited for easy access of the original literature.