Much Ado about Marduk : : Questioning Discourses of Royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian Literature / / Jennifer Finn.
Scholars 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 fina...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 241 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Standard Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Reading Counterdiscursive Texts in the First Millennium BC
- Chapter 2. The Kassite Revolution
- Chapter 3. The Library of Assurbanipal and the Counterdiscursive Landscape
- Chapter 4. The “Babylonian Problem” and Scribal Dialogues of Counterdiscursiveness
- Chapter 5. Counterdiscursiveness beyond belles lettres in and out of Nineveh
- Chapter 6. Textual Hegemony and the Counterdiscursive Public
- Epilogue. The Legacy of Late Akkadian Countertexts
- Bibliography
- Index