Kingship And The Gods

Author : Henri Frankfort
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226260112

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Kingship and the Gods by Henri Frankfort Pdf

This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. By examining the forms of kingship which evolved in the two countries, Frankfort discovered that beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the natural conditions under which each society developed. The river flood which annually renewed life in the Nile Valley gave Egyptians a cheerful confidence in the permanence of established things and faith in life after death. Their Mesopotamian contemporaries, however, viewed anxiously the harsh, hostile workings of nature. Frank's superb work, first published in 1948 and now supplemented with a preface by Samuel Noah Kramer, demonstrates how the Egyptian and Mesopotamian attitudes toward nature related to their concept of kingship. In both countries the people regarded the king as their mediator with the gods, but in Mesopotamia the king was only the foremost citizen, while in Egypt the ruler was a divine descendant of the gods and the earthly representative of the God Horus.

Author : Henri Frankfort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0226260100

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Kingship and the Gods by Henri Frankfort Pdf

Author : Henri Frankfort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Assyro-Babylonian religion
ISBN : OCLC:30675718

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Kingship and the Gods by Henri Frankfort Pdf

Author : Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317117759

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In the Garden of the Gods by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides Pdf

Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be understood metaphorically from the start and that these metaphors survived in later historical periods, through popular literature including the Epic of Gilgameš and the Enuma Eliš. The author’s research shows that from the earliest times Near Eastern kings and their scribes adapted these metaphors to promote royal legitimacy in accordance with legendary exempla that highlighted the role of the king as the establisher of order and civilization. As another Gilgameš and, later, as a pious servant of Marduk, the king renewed divine favour for his subjects, enabling them to share the 'Garden of the Gods'. Seleucus and Antiochus found these cultural ideas, as they had evolved in the first millennium BCE, extremely useful in their efforts to establish their dynasty at Babylon. Far from playing down cultural differences, the book considers the ideological agendas of ancient Near Eastern empires as having been shaped mainly by class — rather than race-minded elites.

Author : Jane A. Hill,Philip Jones,Antonio J. Morales
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781934536643

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Experiencing Power, Generating Authority by Jane A. Hill,Philip Jones,Antonio J. Morales Pdf

Experiencing Power, Generating Authority offers a cross-cultural comparison of the cosmic ideology and political structure of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Author : O'Connor,David P Silverman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004676701

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Ancient Egyptian Kingship by O'Connor,David P Silverman Pdf

This well-illustrated volume represents an extensive analysis of kingship in ancient Egypt. Each of the six contributing authors investigates particular areas of his own expertise. Among the topics covered are the origin of kingship, its distinctive traits and its general nature, and its reflection in royal art and architecture.

Author : Nicole Maria Brisch
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015082688733

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Religion and Power by Nicole Maria Brisch Pdf

This volume represents a collection of contributions presented during the Third Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute, February 23-24, 2007. The purpose of this conference was to examine more closely concepts of kingship in various regions of the world and in different time periods. The study of kingship goes back to the roots of fields such as anthropology and religious studies, as well as Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology. More recently, several conferences have been held on kingship, drawing on cross-cultural comparisons. Yet the question of the divinity of the king as god has never before been examined within the framework of a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary conference. Some of the recent anthropological literature on kingship relegates this question of kings who deified themselves to the background or voices serious misgivings about the usefulness of the distinction between divine and sacred kings. Several contributors to this volume have pointed out the Western, Judeo-Christian background of our categories of the human and the divine. However, rather than abandoning the term divine kingship because of its loaded history it is more productive to examine the concept of divine kingship more closely from a new perspective in order to modify our understanding of this term and the phenomena associated with it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004502529

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Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds by Anonim Pdf

This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.

Author : A. Azfar Moin,Alan Strathern
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231555401

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Sacred Kingship in World History by A. Azfar Moin,Alan Strathern Pdf

Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective. Editors A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern present a theoretical framework for understanding sacred kingship, which leading scholars reflect on and respond to in a series of essays. They distinguish between two separate but complementary religious tendencies, immanentism and transcendentalism, which mold kings into divinized or righteous rulers, respectively. Whereas immanence demands priestly and cosmic rites from kings to sustain the flourishing of life, transcendence turns the focus to salvation and subordinates rulers to higher ethical objectives. Secular modernity does not end the struggle between immanence and transcendence—flourishing and righteousness—but only displaces it from kings onto nations and individuals. After an essay by Marshall Sahlins that ranges from the Pacific to the Arctic, the book contains chapters on religion and kingship in settings as far-flung as ancient Egypt, classical Greece, medieval Islam, Mughal India, modern European drama, and ISIS. Sacred Kingship in World History sheds new light on how religion has constructed rulership, with implications spanning global history, religious studies, political theory, and anthropology.

Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226845609

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Kingship and Sacrifice by Valerio Valeri Pdf

Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.

Author : Robert Heine-Geldern
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501719257

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Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia by Robert Heine-Geldern Pdf

A study of "the ideological foundations" of the monarchical governments of Southeast Asia, specifically in Hindu-Buddhist cultures, this book examines political thought on the nature of rule.

Author : Marko Geslani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190862886

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Rites of the God-King by Marko Geslani Pdf

Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category in "classical" Hindu texts, Geslani traces the emergence of a class of rituals known as santi, or appeasement. This ritual, intended to counteract ominous omens, developed from the intersection of the fourth Veda - the oft-neglected Atharvaveda - and the emergent tradition of astral science (Jyotisastra) sometime in the early first millennium, CE. Its development would come to have far-reaching consequences on the ideal ritual life of the king in early-medieval Brahmanical society. The mantric transformations involved in the history of santi led to the emergence of a politicized ritual culture that could encompass both traditional Vedic and newer Hindu performers and practices. From astrological appeasement to gift-giving, coronation, and image worship, Rites of the God-King chronicles the multiple lives and afterlives of a single ritual mode, unveiling the always-inventive work of the priesthood to imagine and enrich royal power. Along the way, Geslani reveals the surprising role of astrologers in Hindu history, elaborates conceptions of sin and misfortune, and forges new connections between medieval texts and modern practices. In a work that details ritual forms that were dispersed widely across Asia, he concludes with a reflection on the nature of orthopraxy, ritual change, and the problem of presence in the Hindu tradition.

Author : Marie Vandenbeusch,Aude Semat,Margaret St. Claire Maitland,Margaret Todd Maitland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300218381

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Pharaoh by Marie Vandenbeusch,Aude Semat,Margaret St. Claire Maitland,Margaret Todd Maitland Pdf

A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt introduces readers to three thousand years of Egypt's ancient history by unveiling its famous rulers--the pharaohs--using some of the finest objects from the vast holdings of the British Museum, along with masterworks from the collection fo the Cleveland Museum of Art.. In an introductory essay, Margaret Maitland looks at Egyptian kingship in terms of both ideology and practicality. Then Aude Semat considers the Egyptian image of kingship, its roles and its uses. In ten additional sections, Marie Vandenbeusch delves into themes related to the land of ancient Egypt, conceptions of kingship, the exercise of power, royal daily life, war and diplomacy, and death and afterlife. Detailed entries by Vandenbeusch and Semat cover key works relating to the pharaohs. These objects, beautifully illustrated in 180 photographs, include monumental sculpture, architectural pieces, funerary objects, exquisite jewelry, and papyri. The rulers of ancient Egypt were not always male, or even always Egyptian. At times, Egypt was divided by civil war, conquered by foreign powers, or ruled by competing kings. Many of the objects surviving from ancient Egypt represent the image a pharaoh wanted to project, but this publication also looks past the myth to explore the realities and immense challenges of ruling one of the greatest civilizations the world has seen.

Author : R. T. France
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1573832448

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Divine Government by R. T. France Pdf

R.T. France believes that much of today's popular use of "kingdom" language runs the risk of distorting Jesus' words, and trivializing the depth and richness of his teaching. This book will help many Christians avoid that risk, while also providing helpful and persuasive answers to a range of questions thrown up by modern scholarship. What would "the Kingdom of God" have meant to Mark's first readers? Is "kingdom" the best translation? What did Jesus mean when he said the kingdom would come "with power"? And what are we to make of those passages which seem to predict the coming of the "Son of Man" within the lifetime of the first disciples? R. T. France has taught at London Bible College and was principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, from 1989 to 1995. He is the author of Matthew in the Tyndale New Testament Commentary series, The Evidence for Jesus, The Living God, and Jesus and the Old Testament.

Author : Joanne Williamson
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781883937737

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God King by Joanne Williamson Pdf

A never-before published tale by the author of the best-selling Hittite Warrior, carries the reader back to Ancient Egypt and biblical Jerusalem. It is 701 B.C-rule of the Kushite dynasty in ancient Egypt. Young Prince Taharka, a very minor royal son, succeeds unexpectedly to the throne of Kush and Egypt-a divine rulership. It's not long, however, before a treacherous plot pushes him into sudden exile and into the hands of Amos, an emissary of King Hezekiah seeking help against the Assyrians. Posing as a medical assistant, Taharka journeys with Amos to Judea where he encounters two kings in conflict. His true identity suddenly uncovered, he must choose with whom he will fight-the mighty Assyrian, Sennacherib, promising alliance or Hezekiah, the Jew who trusts in Yahweh. A novel inspired by research on the historical King Taharka and his period.