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Religion and Power
Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
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This volume represents a collection of contributions presented during the Third Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute, February 23-24, 2007. The purpose of this conference was to examine more closely concepts of kingship in various regions of the world and in different time periods. The study of kingship goes back to the roots of fields such as anthropology and religious studies, as well as Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology. More recently, several conferences have been held on kingship, drawing on cross-cultural comparisons. Yet the question of the divinity of the king as god has never before been examined within the framework of a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary conference. Some of the recent anthropological literature on kingship relegates this question of kings who deified themselves to the background or voices serious misgivings about the usefulness of the distinction between divine and sacred kings. Several contributors to this volume have pointed out the Western, Judeo-Christian background of our categories of the human and the divine. However, rather than abandoning the term divine kingship because of its loaded history it is more productive to examine the concept of divine kingship more closely from a new perspective in order to modify our understanding of this term and the phenomena associated with it.
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This book is the first complete catalogue of cuneiform tablets and inscriptions at the National Museum of Denmark and includes the publication of more than one hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The cuneiform tablet collection, which the museum acquired over more than a century, reflects the long-standing Danish interest in the cultural heritage of ancient Iraq, Syria and Iran. Also included are a number of cuneiform tablets that were excavated during the Danish archaeological campaigns in Hama (Syria).The catalogue itself is the result of a four-year project called Hidden Treasures: Cuneiform Texts at the National Museum of Denmark, co-funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, the Edubba Foundation and the University of Copenhagen. The project was a collaboration between the National Museum and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies of the University of Copenhagen, with the goal to fully catalogue and digitize for the first time the entire collection of written artefacts inscribed with the cuneiform writing system, one of the earliest scripts to ever be devised. The digital catalogue and images are now made available on the website of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI).The manuscripts and inscriptions catalogued and published here range in date from the middle of the third millennium up until the late first millennium BCE, covering almost the entire timespan of cuneiform cultures. It includes newly identified historical, legal, administrative, literary and religious texts from three millennia of cuneiform cultures and thus reflects a wide array of time periods, languages and genres.