Format:
1 Online-Ressource (307 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781463241889
Series Statement:
Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 16
Content:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF AUTHORS -- INTRODUCTION -- LAMENTATIONS 1 AS RESPONSE TO DEFEAT -- WHY WAS PSALM 79 COMPOSED? -- PICTURING DEFEAT TO BUILD RESILIENCE: A READING OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HEBREW PSALTER -- 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 -- 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 -- DEFEAT LITERATURE IN THE CULT OF THE VICTORIOUS: ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN SUMERIAN CITY LAMENTS -- A NEW HOPE: THE NEW YEAR’S FESTIVAL TEXTS AS A CULTURAL REACTION TO DEFEAT -- THE SOUND OF SILENCE: THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON BY SENNACHERIB AND THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLES -- ASSYRIA IN EGYPT: HOW TO TRACE DEFEAT IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SOURCES -- AFTER THE FLAMES DIED DOWN: DEFEAT, DESTRUCTION, AND FORCED ABANDONMENT IN THE BRONZE AND IRON AGE LEVANT -- AFTER THE STORM: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE ASSYRIAN DEFEAT OF THE SOUTHERN LEVANT -- INDICES
Content:
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
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781463239206
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9781463239206
Language:
English
DOI:
10.31826/9781463241889
URL:
https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463241889
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463241889
Author information:
Grohmann, Marianne 1969-
Author information:
Höflmayer, Felix
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