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A Year of Vengeance - Time, Narrative, and the Old Assyrian Trade (Hardcover)
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A Year of Vengeance - Time, Narrative, and the Old Assyrian Trade (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)
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Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old
Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level
of the merchant's commercial and personal activities. In this book,
Stratford sets out to recapture time through narrative, drawing on
the relationship between the two described by the philosopher Paul
Ricouer. Investigating a possible case of revenge leads to weaving
together more than a hundred mostly undated documents to form a
narrative within the course of a single year of vengeance,
including trade disruptions, illnesses, and commerce. This process
demonstrates relationships between document and material context,
and time and narrative. Along the way, Old Assyrian commercial time
and its tempos become more clear, leading to descriptions of the
scale of the trade and the nature of Old Assyrian archives as they
have survived. Ultimately, the Assyrians involved appear as the
earliest historical individuals in world history. The treatment of
Salim-ahum's apparent revenge comprises a practicuum in historical
interpretation in the ancient world of interest to practitioners
and theoreticians of both the ancient world and world history.
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