UID:
almahu_9948206441702882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780190868994 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This text examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in the rhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of recent history and to associate their reigns with an earlier and more illustrious past.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2019.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190868963
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
