Relations Of Power In Early Neo Assyrian State Ideology

Author : Mattias Karlsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614516910

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Relations of Power in Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology by Mattias Karlsson Pdf

This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopotamian deities, the Assyrian king, and foreign lands are described and depicted. It undertakes a close reading of delimited royal inscriptions and iconography making use of postcolonial and gender theory, and addresses such topics as royal deification, “religious imperialism”, ethnicity and empire, and gendered imagery. The important contribution of this study lies especially in its identification of patterns of ideological continuity and variation within the reigns of individual rulers, between various localities, and between the different rulers of this period, and in its discussion of the place of Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology in the overall development of Assyrian propaganda. It includes several indexed appendices, which list all primary sources, present all divine and royal epithets, and provide all of the “royal visual representations,” and incorporates numerous illustrations, such as maps, plans, and royal iconography.

Author : Mattias Karlsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 915062363X

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Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology by Mattias Karlsson Pdf

The great gods were imagined as the masters and the conquerors of the foreign lands. The Assyrian king presented himself as the representative, priest, servant, master builder, and warrior of the great gods. The great gods had ordered the Assyrian king to implement their world dominion. On this divine mission, the Assyrian king was confronted by various hinderances such as the wild foreign landscape and its wild animals. By the act of conquering, the named chaotic elements of Otherness became a part of Order. The relationship between the Assyrian king and the foreign deities was portrayed as characterized by mutual respect. The religious imperialism of the two kings was not of an iconoclastic character. The foreign elites and people had the choice to submit and pay tribute and then be shepherded, or to resist and then be annihilated or enslaved. In times of confrontation, polarizations and dichotomies centred social classes ("elites") and not nations or nationalities

Author : Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614519546

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Religion and Ideology in Assyria by Beate Pongratz-Leisten Pdf

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.

Author : Samuel L. Boyd
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781506480671

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Babel by Samuel L. Boyd Pdf

In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Boyd shows how one of the most familiar stories from the Bible, the Tower of Babel, has been misinterpreted for millennia. He offers a new interpretation, and also examines how the story has shaped politics and intellectual culture to the current day.

Author : Luis Robert Siddall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004256149

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The Reign of Adad-nīrārī III by Luis Robert Siddall Pdf

In The Reign of Adad-nīrārī III, Luis Siddall examines the evidence and edits new inscriptions from the king’s reign to investigate the chronology, campaigns, imperial administration and royal ideology of the period. While historians have typically viewed this period as one of turmoil, imperial recession, political weakness and decentralisation, Siddall shows that Adad-nīrārī’s reign marked a period of imperial stability, chiefly through changes to the administration. However, while politically successful, the imperial policy affected the king’s ideological expression, particularly in terms of the description of the campaigns in Adad-nīrārī's inscriptions and his limited use of royal titles. "Scholars working on the Neo-Assyrian period cannot afford to miss Siddall's fresh assessment of the evidence for Adad-nirari's reign. He offers a re-evaluation of several texts but perhaps more importantly, he proposes a few methodological innovations that shed new light on the history of Assyria in the 9th century." Bill T. Arnold (Asbury Theological Seminary)

Author : Eckart Frahm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118325230

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A Companion to Assyria by Eckart Frahm Pdf

A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding of society and life in this ancient civilization. The only detailed up-to-date introduction providing a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty years Original essays written and edited by a team of respected Assyriology scholars from around the world An in-depth exploration of Assyrian society and life, including the latest thought on cities, art, religion, literature, economy, and technology, and political and military history

Author : Peter Fibiger Bang,Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139560955

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Universal Empire by Peter Fibiger Bang,Dariusz Kolodziejczyk Pdf

The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from ancient history, to literary and philosophical studies, to the history of art and international relations and historical sociology. The notion of universal, imperial rule is presented as an elusive and much coveted prize among monarchs in history, around which developed forms of kingship and political culture. Different facets of the phenomenon are explored under three, broadly conceived, headings: symbolism, ceremony and diplomatic relations; universal or cosmopolitan literary high-cultures; and, finally, the inclination to present universal imperial rule as an expression of cosmic order.

Author : Mattias Karlsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Assyria
ISBN : 9521094974

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Alterity in Ancient Assyrian Propaganda by Mattias Karlsson Pdf

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the image of "enemy" in Assyrian state ideology, based on royal titles attested in Assyrian documents from Old Assyrian through Neo-Assyrian times, the narratives of Assyrian royal inscriptions, and Assyrian palace art. The main focus of the study is the creation of enemy images as a timeless and universal ruling technique embodied in postcolonial concepts such as "alterity" and "the Other." The data collected by the author make it possible to make interesting comparisons between the Old, Middle, and Neo-Assyrian periods and to isolate continuities and new trends in the development of Assyrian state propaganda over a period of more than 1400 years.

Author : Jane A. Hill,Philip Jones,Antonio J. Morales
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Alice M.W. Hunt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004304123

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Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape by Alice M.W. Hunt Pdf

In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by understanding these vessels as a vehicle through which intricate interregional, intercultural relationships were negotiated, established and maintained.

Author : Saana Svärd
Publisher : State Archives of Assyria Studies
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Assyria
ISBN : 952101346X

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Women and Power in Neo-Assyrian Palaces by Saana Svärd Pdf

Power in general and women's power in particular has been understood mostly in a hierarchical way in earlier research on Mesopotamian women. Hierarchical power structures were important in Mesopotamia, but other kinds of power structures existed as well. This study, which focuses on women in the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 930-610 BCE), draws attention to heterarchical power relations in which women were engaged in the Neo-Assyrian palace milieu. Heterarchical power relations include power relations such as reciprocal power, resistance, and persuasion. Although earlier research has certainly been aware of women's influence in the palaces, this study makes explicit the power concepts employed in previous research and further develops them using the concept of heterarchy. The study is based on primary cuneiform sources and presents a detailed description of women in Neo-Assyrian palaces. However, it additionally shows that by applying modern theories of power to the study of ancient texts, one can gain important new insights into the dynamics of ancient society.

Author : Mattias Karlsson
Publisher : State Archives of Assyria Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Africans in literature
ISBN : 9521095105

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From the Nile to the Tigris by Mattias Karlsson Pdf

Egypt and Mesopotamia, the cradles(s) of civilization, are often studied separately. This study takes another approach and focuses on the relations between these two river-based civilizations during the seventh century BCE. The preciser aims of this study are to identify Africans (Egyptians, Kushites, Libyans) in Neo-Assyrian texts, and to discuss the presence of Africans in the Neo-Assyrian empire from the viewpoints of individual-biographic and collective-demographic levels and perspectives. The following research questions are posed. Who were these Africans (in terms of ethnicity, gender/sex, age, adn class)? What did these people do (in terms of profession)? When did they live (in terms of reign or time period)? Where did they live (in terms of the Assyrian heartland and provinces, the vassal states, or Africa)? How were they incorporated into the Assyrian realm (in terms of forced/voluntary, etc.)?

Author : Barbara N. Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062494219

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Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia by Barbara N. Porter Pdf

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 : Ian Morris,Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0199707618

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The Dynamics of Ancient Empires by Ian Morris,Walter Scheidel Pdf

The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers--the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires--ruled perhaps two-thirds of the earth's entire population. Yet despite empires' prominence in the early history of civilization, there have been surprisingly few attempts to study the dynamics of ancient empires in the western Old World comparatively. Such grand comparisons were popular in the eighteenth century, but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence, and necessarily framed the problem in different, more limited, terms. Near Eastern texts, and knowledge of their languages, only appeared in large amounts in the later nineteenth century. Neither Karl Marx nor Max Weber could make much use of this material, and not until the 1920s were there enough archaeological data to make syntheses of early European and west Asian history possible. But one consequence of the increase in empirical knowledge was that twentieth-century scholars generally defined the disciplinary and geographical boundaries of their specialties more narrowly than their Enlightenment predecessors had done, shying away from large questions and cross-cultural comparisons. As a result, Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to address these deficits and encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE. A substantial introductory discussion of recent thought on the mechanisms of imperial state formation prefaces the five newly commissioned case studies of the Neo-Assyrian, Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Roman, and Byzantine empires. A final chapter draws on the findings of evolutionary psychology to improve our understanding of ultimate causation in imperial predation and exploitation in a wide range of historical systems from all over the globe. Contributors include John Haldon, Jack Goldstone, Peter Bedford, Josef Wieseh?fer, Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Keith Hopkins, whose essay on Roman political economy was completed just before his death in 2004.