Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new
interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously
inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern
literature within the political context of its production. The book
argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze
Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its
day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its
audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves
to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop
more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion
have interacted-in antiquity, and beyond.
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