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Religion and Ideology in Assyria

By Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2015
ISBN
1614514828, 9781614514824
ISSN
2161-4415
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (13055048 bytes)
Series
Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 6
Pages
553\573
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-03-26 22:23:31
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Description

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.

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