The Routledge handbook of emotions in the ancient Near East / / edited by Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert.

• Superior document: Routledge handbooks
• TeilnehmendeR: Sonik, Karen,; Steinert, Ulrike,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge handbooks.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (817 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Note -- Transliteration Conventions for Ancient Texts -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Emotions in the Ancient Near East: Foundations for a Developing Field of Study -- PART I Theoretical and Thematic Approaches and Methods -- I. Emotions and History -- 1 The Emotions of Dead Civilizations: "Come, Tell Me How You Lived" -- 2 Emotion and the Body: Embodiment, Conceptual Metaphor, and Linguistic Encoding of Emotions in Akkadian -- 3 Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion: What Is Love? -- II. Defining the Terms -- 4 Sumerian Emotion Terms -- 5 Akkadian Emotion Terms -- 6 Hittite Emotion Terms -- 7 Ugaritic Emotion Terms -- III. Materialization and Material Remains -- 8 Emotions and Archaeology in Ancient Mesopotamia -- 9 Emotions and Musical Performance -- 10 Emotions and Body Language: The Expression of Emotions in Visual Art -- IV. Kings and the State -- 11 Emotions and Assyrian Kingship -- 12 Emotions and Hittite Kingship: Feeling Like a King -- 13 Emotions and the Brotherhood of Kings: Affection in the Amarna Letters -- V. Engaging the Gods -- 14 Emotions and Emesal Laments: Motivations, Performance, and Management -- 15 Emotions and Ritual Laments: The Affective Function of Beer in Mesopotamia -- 16 Emotions and Religion: Ritual Performance in Mesopotamia -- 17 Emotions and Hittite Prayers -- PART II Corpus-Based Approaches -- I. Happiness and Joy -- 18 Joy and Happiness in Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions -- 19 Joy and Happiness in Hittite Texts -- II. Fear, Terror, and Awe -- 20 Awe as Entangled Emotion: Prosociality, Collective Action, and Aesthetics in the Sumerian Gilgamesh Narratives -- 21 Fear and Terror in Assyrian Palace Reliefs -- III. Sadness, Grief, and Depression.

22 Grief and Sadness in the Sumerian Gilgamesh Narratives -- 23 Sadness and Grief in Akkadian Texts -- 24 Grief and Sadness in Ugaritic Texts -- IV. Contempt, Disgust, and Shame -- 25 Contempt and Related Emotions in Hittite and Akkadian Literary Texts -- 26 Shaming the Enemy in Assyrian Palace Reliefs and Royal Inscriptions -- V. Anger and Hate -- 27 Anger and Hatred in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions -- 28 Anger and Hatred in Hittite Te -- VI. Envy and Jealousy -- 29 Envy and Jealousy in Magico-Medical Texts -- VII. Love, Affection, and Admiration -- 30 Love and Desire in Sumerian Texts -- 31 Love and Kindness in the Assyrian State -- 32 Love and Affection in Hittite Texts -- VIII. Pity, Empathy, and Compassion -- 33 Compassion, Pity, and Empathy in Sumerian Sources -- 34 Pity and Suffering in Old Babylonian Akkadian Sources -- Index.