The politics of ritual change : the Zukru festival in the political history of late Bronze Age Emar

1. Verfasser: Thames, John Tracy, Jr. , [VerfasserIn]
Körperschaft: Brill Online books and journals.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020].
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xiv, 345 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Harvard Semitic monographs no. 65.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: The politics of ritual change (Print version)
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Abbreviations for Texts from Emar and its Vicinity
  • List of Tables
  • part 1: The City of Emar and Its Zukru Rituals
  • 1 Introduction to the City of Emar
  • 1 Archaeological Excavations at Tell Meskeneh
  • 2 The Archives of Emar
  • 3 Emar's Scribal Distinctions
  • 2 The Zukru Ritual : The City's Offering to Dagan
  • 1 Texts and Translations : Emar 375+ 397 + 401 + 428 + 448* + 449*
  • 2 The zukru Ritual of the City of Emar
  • 3 Gods and Men in the zukru Ritual
  • 4 The Performance of the zukru Ritual
  • 3 The zukru Festival : Expansion of Local Traditions
  • 1 Texts and Translations : Emar 373 + 374 + 376 + 424 + 425 + Dercksen Kaskal No. 3
  • 2 Textual and Philological Notes
  • 3 The zukru Ritual in its Festival Version
  • 4 zukru Festival Divinity
  • 5 The Ritual Transaction : Donations to the Gods
  • 6 The Sponsors of the zukru Festival
  • 7 The Provisioning of the zukru Festival
  • 8 The Performance of the zukru in Its Festival Form
  • 4 Part 1 Conclusion: The zukru Traditions
  • 1 The Meaning of the Word "zukru"
  • 2 The zukru Rituals : A Synthetic View
  • part 2: Politics and Rituals
  • 5 Emar in the Late Bronze Age : History, Politics, and Chronology
  • 1 The Question of Emar's Relationship to Mittani
  • 2 Local Politics of Emar : The Conventional Format Documentation
  • 3 The Hittite Conquest of North Syria
  • 4 The Role of Hittite Karkamiš in Emar Politics : Evidence of the Free Format Documentation
  • 5 The Relationship between Local and Foreign Authorities : Chronological Considerations and Political Change
  • 6 Politics, Power, and the zukru Festival
  • 1 The King and the zukru Festival
  • 2 zukru Practice under Hittite Aegis
  • 3 Hittite Involvement in Emar's Cults
  • 4 Cults of Anatolian Deities at Emar
  • 5 The Hittite Interest in Emar's Cults
  • 6 Historical Context and the Dating of the zukru Texts
  • 7 Conclusion: Power, Politics, and Change in ... [long field truncated]