Much ado about Marduk: questioning discourses of royalty in first millennium Mesopotamian literature

Finn, Jennifer

doi:10.1515/9781501504969

Much ado about Marduk: questioning discourses of royalty in first millennium Mesopotamian literature

Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume challenges that general assumption, by presenting an analysis of the motivations,methods, and motifs behind a scholarly discourse about kingship that arose in the fina...

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Main Author:	Finn, Jennifer (Author)
Format:	Electronic Book
Language:	English
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Published:	Boston Berlin De Gruyter [2017]
In:	Studies in ancient near Eastern records (volume 16) Year: 2017
Reviews:	[Rezension von: Finn, Jennifer, Much ado about Marduk : questioning discourses of royalty in first millennium Mesopotamian literature] (2020) (Artemov, Nikita, 1979 -)
Series/Journal:	Studies in ancient near Eastern records volume 16
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:	B Akkadian language / Literature / King (Motif) / Marduk
Further subjects:	B Marduk (Babylonian deity) B Sanherib B Assyro-Babylonian literature B Sennacherib B Assurbanipal B Akkadische Literatur B Ashurbanipal B Thesis B Marduk B Akkadian literature
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Parallel Edition:	Non-electronic Erscheint auch als: 978-1-5015-0498-3 Erscheint auch als: 978-1-5015-0497-6 Erscheint auch als: 978-1-5015-1385-5