History, texts and art in early Babylonia : three essays / Piotr Steinkeller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinkeller, Piotr, author.

Series:

Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 15.

Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, 2161-4415 ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Kings and rulers.

Babylonia--History.

Babylonia.

Iraq--History--To 634--Kings and rulers.

Iraq.

Art, Assyro-Babylonian.

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.

Middle East--Babylonia.

Genre:

History.

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter Inc., [2017]

Summary:

The book studies the history of early Babylonian kingship, as it evolved from prehistoric times down to the end of the third millennium BCE, and its reflections in the contemporaneous and later historical sources, literary texts and art. Among the chief issues it considers are the intersection between history writing and the scholarly tradition in early Babylonia, and the modern approaches toward the study of ancient "historical" sources.

Contents:

Writing, kingship and political discourse in early Babylonia : reflections on the nature and function of third mellennium historical sources

The divine rules of Akkade and Ur : towards a definition of the deification of kings in Babylonia

Mythical realities of the early Babylonian history (or the modern historian and the native uses of history past).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501513305

1501513303

OCLC:

969545712

Publisher Number:

99972795125