Of priests and kings : : the Babylonian new year festival in the last age of cuneiform culture / / Céline Debourse.

• Superior document: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 127
• VerfasserIn: Debourse, Céline,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 127.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Copyright Page /; Acknowledgments /; Abbreviations /; Chapter 1 Introduction /; Chapter 2 Status Quaestionis /; Chapter 3 Textual Sources for the Babylonian New Year Festival During the First Millennium BCE /; Chapter 4 The New Year Festival Texts /; Chapter 5 Analyses /; Chapter 6 The Historical and Textual Framework of the NYF Texts /; Chapter 7 Conclusion /; Appendix 1 Correlation NYF 2-3// NYF 4 /; Appendix 2 Glossary of Akkadian Words in the NYF texts /; Bibliography /; Indexes /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004513037; 9789004512955
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Céline Debourse.

Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals. The festival's twelve-day paradigm is dissolved in favor of a more historically dynamic model, with the ritual texts being firmly anchored in the Hellenistic period. As part of a larger group of texts constituting what can be called Late Babylonian Priestly Literature, they reflect the Babylonian priesthoods' fears and aspirations of that time much more than an actual ritual reality.