Culture of defeat : submission in written sources and the archaeological record. Proceedings of a joint seminar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, October 2017 / edited by Katharina Streit, Marianne Grohmann.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Streit, Katharina, editor.

Grohmann, Marianne, 1969- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Culture of Defeat--Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record of the Ancient Near East (Seminar) (2017 : Jerusalem)

Series:

Gorgias studies in the ancient Near East

Gorgias studies in the Ancient Near East, 2689-601X ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Defeat (Psychology).

History, Military.

Middle East--History--To 622.

Middle East.

History.

Middle East--History, Military--To 1500.

Defeat (Psychology)--Case studies.

Middle East Region.

Genre:

Case studies.

History.

Military history.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Proceedings of a joint seminar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, October 2017

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2020.

Summary:

"Culture of Defeat is based on a 2017 conference focusing on the impact on, and responses by, the defeated parties in conflicts in the ancient Near East. Shifting the focus of analysis from the conqueror to the vanquished, the (re-) examination of written sources and the archaeological record sheds new light on the consequences and reactions after often traumatic defeats and allows to gain a more nuanced and complete picture of such events"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lamentations 1 as response to defeat / Marianne Grohmann

Why was Psalm 79 composed ? / Yair Zakovitch

Picturing defeat to build resilience : a reading of the first book of the Hebrew Psalter / Danilio Verde

Doomed prophets : the function of cult officials in times of destruction as a literary topic in ancient Near Eastern lament literature as well as in the Book of Jeremiah / Sarah K�ohler

Lost the battle? Three case studies of military defeat ; rewrite history and claim you won the war, ignore the defeat and consolidate power, or pray to God / Dan 'el Kahn

Defeat literature in the cult of the victorious : ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian city laments / Uri Gabbay

A new hope : the New Year's Festival texts as a cultural reaction to defeat / C�eline Debourse

The sound of silence : the destruction of Babylon by Sennacherib and the Babylonian chronicles / Yuval Levavi

Assyria in Egypt : how to trace defeat in ancient Egyptian sources / Felix H�oflmayer

After the flames died down : defeat, destruction, and forced abandonment in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant / Igor Kreimerman

After the storm : political, economic and socio-demographic aspects of the Assyrian defeat of the southern Levant / Katharina Streit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Culture of defeat

ISBN:

9781463239206

1463239203

OCLC:

1226965059

Publisher Number:

99989377285