LEADER 03733nam 2200649 450 001 9910815397203321 005 20231221152540.0 010 $a1-5015-0498-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501504969 035 $a(CKB)3710000001386864 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4866631 035 $a(DE-B1597)470537 035 $a(OCoLC)988764315 035 $a(OCoLC)989860279 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501504969 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4866631 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11391036 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1013017 035 $a(PPN)203526198 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001386864 100 $a20170623h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMuch ado about Marduk $equestioning discourses of royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian literature /$fJennifer Finn 210 1$aBoston, [Massachusetts] ;$aBerlin, [Germany] :$cWalter de Gruyter Inc.,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (252 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Ancient Near Eastern Records ;$vVolume 16 311 $a1-5015-0496-7 311 $a1-5015-1385-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tPreface --$tContents --$tStandard Abbreviations --$tChapter 1. Reading Counterdiscursive Texts in the First Millennium BC --$tChapter 2. The Kassite Revolution --$tChapter 3. The Library of Assurbanipal and the Counterdiscursive Landscape --$tChapter 4. The "Babylonian Problem" and Scribal Dialogues of Counterdiscursiveness --$tChapter 5. Counterdiscursiveness beyond belles lettres in and out of Nineveh --$tChapter 6. Textual Hegemony and the Counterdiscursive Public --$tEpilogue. The Legacy of Late Akkadian Countertexts --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aScholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume challenges that general assumption, by presenting an analysis of the motivations,methods, and motifs behind a scholarly discourse about kingship that arose in the final stages of the last Mesopotamian empires. The focus of the volume is the proliferation of a literature that problematizes authority in the Neo-Assyrian period, when texts first begin to specifically explore various modalities for critique of royalty. This development is symptomatic of a larger discourse about the limits of power that emerges after the repatriation of Marduk's statue to Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in the 12th century BCE. From this point onwards, public attitudes toward Marduk provide a framework for the definition of proper royal behavior, and become a point of contention between Assyria and Babylonia. It is in this historical and political context that several important Akkadian compositions are placed. The texts are analyzed from a new perspective that sheds light on their original milieux and intended functions. 410 0$aStudies in ancient Near Eastern records ;$vVolume 16. 606 $aAssyro-Babylonian literature 606 $aMarduk (Babylonian deity) 607 $aIraq$xHistory$yTo 634$xKings and rulers 607 $aAssyria$xHistory$vSources 610 $aAkkadian literature. 610 $aAshurbanipal. 610 $aMarduk. 610 $aSennacherib. 615 0$aAssyro-Babylonian literature. 615 0$aMarduk (Babylonian deity) 676 $a935/.03 686 $aBE 6405$2rvk 700 $aFinn$b Jennifer$01643996 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815397203321 996 $aMuch ado about Marduk$93989564 997 $aUNINA