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Religion and Ideology in Assyria (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Religion and Ideology in Assyria (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)
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Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and
drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this
book reconstructs the cultural discourse of Assyria from the third
through the first millennium BCE. Ideology is delineated here as a
subdiscourse of religion rather than as an independent category,
anchoring it firmly within the religious world view. Tracing
Assur's cultural interaction with the south on the one hand, and
with the Syro-Anatolian horizon on the other, this volume
articulates a "northern" cultural discourse that, even while
interacting with southern Mesopotamian tradition, managed to
maintain its own identity. It also follows the development of
tropes and iconic images from the first city state of Uruk and
their mouvance between myth, image, and royal inscription,
historiography and myth, and myth and ritual, suggesting that, with
the help of scholars, key royal figures were responsible for
introducing new directions for the ideological discourse and for
promoting new forms of historiography.
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