Culture of Defeat : : Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record. Proceedings of a Joint Seminar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, October 2017 / / ed. by Marianne Grohmann, Katharina Streit.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Debourse, Céline,; Gabbay, Uri,; Grohmann, Marianne,; Höflmayer, Felix,; Kahn, Danʾel,; Kreimerman, Igor,; Köhler, Sarah,; Levavi, Yuval,; Streit, Katharina,; Verde, Danilo,; Zakovitch, Yair,
• HerausgeberIn: Grohmann, Marianne,; Streit, Katharina,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 p.)

Culture of Defeat is based on a 2017 conference focusing on the impact on, and responses by, the defeated parties in conflicts in the ancient Near East. Shifting the focus of analysis from the conqueror to the vanquished, the (re-)examination of written sources and the archaeological record sheds new light on the consequences and reactions after often traumatic defeats and allows to gain a more nuanced and complete picture of such events.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF AUTHORS -- INTRODUCTION -- LAMENTATIONS 1 AS RESPONSE TO DEFEAT -- WHY WAS PSALM 79 COMPOSED? -- PICTURING DEFEAT TO BUILD RESILIENCE: A READING OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HEBREW PSALTER -- DOOMED PROPHETS: THE FUNCTION OF CULT OFFICIALS IN TIMES OF DESTRUCTION AS A LITERARY TOPIC IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LAMENT LITERATURE AS WELL AS IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH -- LOST THE BATTLE? THREE CASE STUDIES OF MILITARY DEFEAT: REWRITE HISTORY AND CLAIM YOU WON THE WAR, IGNORE THE DEFEAT AND CONSOLIDATE POWER, OR PRAY TO GOD -- DEFEAT LITERATURE IN THE CULT OF THE VICTORIOUS: ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN SUMERIAN CITY LAMENTS -- A NEW HOPE: THE NEW YEAR’S FESTIVAL TEXTS AS A CULTURAL REACTION TO DEFEAT -- THE SOUND OF SILENCE: THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON BY SENNACHERIB AND THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLES -- ASSYRIA IN EGYPT: HOW TO TRACE DEFEAT IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SOURCES -- AFTER THE FLAMES DIED DOWN: DEFEAT, DESTRUCTION, AND FORCED ABANDONMENT IN THE BRONZE AND IRON AGE LEVANT -- AFTER THE STORM: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE ASSYRIAN DEFEAT OF THE SOUTHERN LEVANT -- INDICES