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

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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. This collection contains 18 essays, 11 of which have originally been published in Italian and are now published in English for the first time. It represents an important contribution to Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies, exposing the innovative interpretations of Liverani on many historical and ideological aspects of ancient society. Topics range from the Amarna letters and the Ugaritic epic, to the ‘origins’ of Israel. Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel will be an invaluable resource for Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical scholars, as well as graduate and post-graduate students. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Editorial note List of abbreviations Introduction 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 of Author Index of Sources