Religion and Ideology in Assyria

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-61451-482-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 553 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 994 g

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)

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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in ANE religion and ideology, in particular Assyriologists and Biblical scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pongratz-Leisten, Beate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen des Alten Orients

Über Autor(innen)

Beate Pongratz-Leisten, New York University, New York, USA.