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Author Finn, Jennifer, author.

Title Much ado about Marduk : questioning discourses of royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian literature / Jennifer Finn
Published Boston : Walter de Gruyter Inc., [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
Series Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; volume 16
Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 16.
Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Standard Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Reading Counterdiscursive Texts in the First Millennium BC -- Chapter 2. The Kassite Revolution -- Chapter 3. The Library of Assurbanipal and the Counterdiscursive Landscape -- Chapter 4. The "Babylonian Problem" and Scribal Dialogues of Counterdiscursiveness -- Chapter 5. Counterdiscursiveness beyond belles lettres in and out of Nineveh -- Chapter 6. Textual Hegemony and the Counterdiscursive Public -- Epilogue. The Legacy of Late Akkadian Countertexts -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The king in ancient Mesopotamia is often viewed as a figure above reproach. This volume problematizes this assumption through a critical investigation of several Akkadian texts that challenge royal policy. In most cases, the questions raised by these texts pertain to the king's relationship to the Babylonian god Marduk, an issue that becomes increasingly relevant during the Neo-Assyrian period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Assyro-Babylonian literature.
Marduk (Babylonian deity)
HISTORY -- Civilization.
Assyro-Babylonian literature
Kings and rulers
Marduk (Babylonian deity)
SUBJECT Iraq -- History -- To 634 -- Kings and rulers
Assyria -- History -- Sources
Subject Iraq
Middle East -- Assyria
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
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