Culture of defeat : submission in written sources and the archaeological record. Proceedings of a joint seminar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, October 2017

Parallelsachtitel: Proceedings of a joint seminar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, October 2017
Körperschaft: Culture of Defeat--Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record of the Ancient Near East (Seminar)
Weitere Verfasser: Streit, Katharina , [HerausgeberIn]
Grohmann, Marianne, 1969- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2020.
Umfang/Format: viii, 299 pages ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Gorgias studies in the ancient Near East 16.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Lamentations 1 as response to defeat / Marianne Grohmann
  • Why was Psalm 79 composed ? / Yair Zakovitch
  • Picturing defeat to build resilience : a reading of the first book of the Hebrew Psalter / Danilio Verde
  • 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 / Sarah Köhler
  • 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 / Dan 'el Kahn
  • Defeat literature in the cult of the victorious : ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian city laments / Uri Gabbay
  • A new hope : the New Year's Festival texts as a cultural reaction to defeat / Céline Debourse
  • The sound of silence : the destruction of Babylon by Sennacherib and the Babylonian chronicles / Yuval Levavi
  • Assyria in Egypt : how to trace defeat in ancient Egyptian sources / Felix Höflmayer
  • After the flames died down : defeat, destruction, and forced abandonment in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant / Igor Kreimerman
  • After the storm : political, economic and socio-demographic aspects of the Assyrian defeat of the southern Levant / Katharina Streit.