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Much Ado about Marduk - Questioning Discourses of Royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian Literature (Hardcover)
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Much Ado about Marduk - Questioning Discourses of Royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)
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Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was
such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume
challenges that general assumption, by presenting an analysis of
the motivations,methods, and motifs behind a scholarly discourse
about kingship that arose in the final stages of the last
Mesopotamian empires. The focus of the volume is the proliferation
of a literature that problematizes authority in the Neo-Assyrian
period, when texts first begin to specifically explore various
modalities for critique of royalty. This development is symptomatic
of a larger discourse about the limits of power that emerges after
the repatriation of Marduk's statue to Babylon during the reign of
Nebuchadnezzar I in the 12th century BCE. From this point onwards,
public attitudes toward Marduk provide a framework for the
definition of proper royal behavior, and become a point of
contention between Assyria and Babylonia. It is in this historical
and political context that several important Akkadian compositions
are placed. The texts are analyzed from a new perspective that
sheds light on their original milieux and intended functions.
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