Of priests and kings : the Babylonian new year festival in the last age of cuneiform culture

Of priests and kings the Babylonian new year festival in the last age of cuneiform culture

Dissertation, University of Vienna, 2020

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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2022
Schriftenreihe:Culture and history of the ancient Near East volume 127
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1000 v. Chr.-1 v. Chr. > Neujahrsfest > Ritus > Literatur > Akītu-Fest > Keilschrift > Babylonien > Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:Dissertation, University of Vienna, 2020
"Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals. The festival's twelve-day paradigm is dissolved in favor of a more historically dynamic model, with the ritual texts being firmly anchored in the Hellenistic period. As part of a larger group of texts constituting what can be called Late Babylonian Priestly Literature, they reflect the Babylonian priesthoods' fears and aspirations of that time much more than an actual ritual reality"
Beschreibung:VIII, 512 Seiten
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25 cm
ISBN:9789004512955
978-90-04-51295-5