Baal and the Politics of Poetry
Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-06362-4 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-06362-4 (ISBN)
This book provides a new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle, an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within its political context.
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 decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion have interacted—in antiquity, and beyond.
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 decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion have interacted—in antiquity, and beyond.
Aaron Tugendhaft is Collegiate Assistant Professor of the Humanities and Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Baal and the Modern Study of Myth
Chapter 2: The Baal Cycle and Bronze Age Politics
Chapter 3: Divine Combat as Political Discourse at Mari
Chapter 4: The Politics of Time
Chapter 5: Unsettling Sovereignty
Chapter 6: Kinship Contested
Conclusion
Appendix: The Envoy Scene (Ktu 1.2 I)
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.11.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Ancient Word |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-06362-2 / 1138063622 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-06362-4 / 9781138063624 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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