Ancient Word – serie
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14 produkter
Baal and the Politics of Poetry
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last …
Beyond Orality
Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them—their genres. Modern scholars describe these works as “poetry,” but there was no corresponding ancient Hebrew term or concept. Scholars also typically assume it began as “oral …
Ritual in Deuteronomy
The Performance of Doom
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomy’s ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material.This book focuses on the ritual material in Deuteronomy including commands regarding sacrifice, …
Royal Women at Ugarit
Reconceiving the House of the Father
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal texts concerning royal women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit, demonstrating women’s pivotal roles in the exercise of power, and then bringing these insights to bear on the Hebrew …
Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story
Häftad, 2021
814 kr
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This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume argues that Ea used …
Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative
The Devouring Metaphor
Inbunden, 2024
2519 kr
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This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wider issues of gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible.Utilising the tools of conceptual …
Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative
The Devouring Metaphor
Häftad, 2025
708 kr
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This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wider issues of gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible.Utilising the tools of conceptual …
How Deuteronomy Created "Israel"
Technologies of the Self, Government, and Writing
Inbunden, 2026
2519 kr
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In this book, Mark K. George argues that the goal of Deuteronomy is not merely to provide ancient Judah with another set of laws but to write “Israel” itself into existence. He reads Deuteronomy as a manual for self‑definition with two key aspects: being an Israelite means recognizing oneself as a …
Royal Women at Ugarit
Reconceiving the House of the Father
Häftad, 2026
708 kr
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This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal texts concerning royal women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit, demonstrating women’s pivotal roles in the exercise of power, and then bringing these insights to bear on the Hebrew …
Baal and the Politics of Poetry
Inbunden, 2017
2594 kr
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Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last …
Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age
Rethinking the Canaanite Amarna Letters
Inbunden, 2026
3917 kr
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Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age offer a nuanced exploration of the scribal practices behind the Canaanite Amarna Letters and wider scribal culture of the Levant during the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE).The book features a summary of the …
Beyond Orality
Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms
Inbunden, 2019
2896 kr
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Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them—their genres. Modern scholars describe these works as “poetry,” but there was no corresponding ancient Hebrew term or concept. Scholars also typically assume it began as “oral …
Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story
Inbunden, 2019
2896 kr
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This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume argues that Ea used …
Ritual in Deuteronomy
The Performance of Doom
Inbunden, 2021
2752 kr
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Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomy’s ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material.This book focuses on the ritual material in Deuteronomy including commands regarding sacrifice, …
