The Routledge handbook of emotions in the ancient Near East / / edited by Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert.
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge handbooks.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (817 pages) |
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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.