Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts write by Simo Parpola. This book was released on 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The internal stability and cohesion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire to a very considerable degree rested on the public image of the King as an omnipotent earthly representative of God. Many elaborate rituals were designed and performed in order to promote this image and firmly implant it in the minds of the king's subjects, vassals and enemies. The corpus of royal rituals known to us includes a long series of ritual acts to be performed by the king in the temples of Assur, Istar and other gods; rituals performed during the New Year's festival and other seasonal festivals in front of audiences consisting of domestic and foreign dignitaries as well as common people; coronation, battle and victory rituals; rituals designed to secure the continuity of the royal line; a protocol for the royal dinner; directions for performing the daily liturgy in Assyrian temples, and so on. The present volume is a critical edition of all currently known Assyrian royal rituals and related cultic texts written in the Neo-Assyrian language. Many of these texts are previously unpublished or inadequately edited, and very few of them have been previously translated into English. They constitute an extremely important source for the study of Assyrian religion, cult and royal ideology and ancient Near Eastern religion and cult in general.
Textiles in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Textiles in the Neo-Assyrian Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Textiles in the Neo-Assyrian Empire write by Salvatore Gaspa. This book was released on 2018-03-05. Textiles in the Neo-Assyrian Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. In fact, the progress in the study of the Assyrian dialect and its grammar and lexicon has shown the increasing importance of studying the language as well as cataloging and analysing the terminology of material culture in the documentation of the first world empire. The book analyses the terms for raw materials, textile procedures, and textile end products consumed in first-millennium BC Assyria. In addition, a new edition of a number of written records from Neo-Assyrian administrative archives completes the work. The book also contains a number of tables, a glossary with all the discussed terms, and a catalogue of illustrations. In light of the recent development of textile research in ancient languages, the book is aimed at providing scholars of Ancient Near Eastern studies and ancient textile studies with a comprehensive work on the Assyrian textiles.
Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts
Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts write by Louis C. Jonker. This book was released on 2021-05-03. Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Multilingualism remains a thorny issue in many contexts, be it cultural, political, or educational. Debates and discourses on this issue in contexts of diversity (particularly in multicultural societies, but also in immigration situations) are often conducted with present-day communicational and educational needs in mind, or with political and identity agendas. This is nothing new. There are a vast number of witnesses from the ancient West-Asian and Mediterranean world attesting to the same debates in long past societies. Could an investigation into the linguistic landscapes of ancient societies shed any light on our present-day debates and discourses? This volume suggests that this is indeed the case. In fourteen chapters, written and visual sources of the ancient world are investigated and explored by scholars, specialising in those fields of study, to engage in an interdisciplinary discourse with modern-day debates about multilingualism. A final chapter – by an expert in language in education – responds critically to the contributions in the book to open avenues for further interdisciplinary engagement – together with contemporary linguists and educationists – on the matter of multilingualism.
The Assyrians
The Assyrians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Assyrians write by Paul Collins. This book was released on 2024-11-12. The Assyrians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible guide to the history of the Assyrian empire from the perspective of its powerful elites. At the height of its power near 660 BC, the Assyrian empire, centered in northern Iraq, wielded dominance from Egypt to Iran. This vast region was ruled by a series of kings who demonstrated their power with magnificent palaces adorned by sculptures depicting rituals, battles, and hunts. Established by military might, the empire thrived under the guidance of scholars who interpreted divine will and administrators who relocated tens of thousands of people to serve the state. This book relates the history of Assyria through the lens of its royal family and the officials who commissioned its buildings, art, and literature—each a critical part of the foundation for the later Babylonian and Persian empires.
Bloodshed by King Manasseh, Assyrians and Priestly Scribes
Bloodshed by King Manasseh, Assyrians and Priestly Scribes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bloodshed by King Manasseh, Assyrians and Priestly Scribes write by Krzysztof Kinowski. This book was released on 2024-01-22. Bloodshed by King Manasseh, Assyrians and Priestly Scribes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. King Manasseh of Judah is one of the most intriguing characters in the Bible. 2 Kings presents him as the wickedest of monarchs. In 2Kgs 24:3–4, he is accused of having provoked God to destroy Judah on account of the innocent blood he had shed in Jerusalem (cf. 2Kgs 21:16). In his study Krzysztof Kinowski investigates this accusation, viewing it against the biblical and ancient Near East backgrounds, and casts a new light upon Manasseh's role in the fall of Jerusalem. The mention of bloodshed in this affair appears to be the outcome of a process of scapegoating of Manasseh, ongoing in 2 Kings and reflecting both the legal and the cultic paradigms governing the biblical historiography. The link between Manasseh's bloodshed and the destruction of Judah on account of the cultic land's blood-defilement points towards a group of priestly scribes involved in the production of the 2Kgs 21 and 24 narratives. This assumption lies behind the scholarly discussion about the Priestly-like strata and priestly touches in the Books of Kings.
