Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture /
Debourse, Céline,
Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture / Céline Debourse. - 1 online resource. - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2022 . - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2022. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Copyright Page / Acknowledgments / Abbreviations / Chapter 1 Introduction / Chapter 2 Status Quaestionis / Chapter 3 Textual Sources for the Babylonian New Year Festival During the First Millennium BCE / Chapter 4 The New Year Festival Texts / Chapter 5 Analyses / Chapter 6 The Historical and Textual Framework of the NYF Texts / Chapter 7 Conclusion / Appendix 1 Correlation NYF 2-3// NYF 4 / Appendix 2 Glossary of Akkadian Words in the NYF texts / Bibliography / Indexes / Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse.
Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals. The festival's twelve-day paradigm is dissolved in favor of a more historically dynamic model, with the ritual texts being firmly anchored in the Hellenistic period. As part of a larger group of texts constituting what can be called Late Babylonian Priestly Literature, they reflect the Babylonian priesthoods' fears and aspirations of that time much more than an actual ritual reality.
9789004513037 9789004512955
10.1163/9789004513037 DOI
2021062612
Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian.
Assyro-Babylonian religion--Rituals--History and criticism.--Texts
Assyro-Babylonian religion--Rituals--Texts.
New Year--Assyria.
CE33
933/.03
Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture / Céline Debourse. - 1 online resource. - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2022 . - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2022. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Copyright Page / Acknowledgments / Abbreviations / Chapter 1 Introduction / Chapter 2 Status Quaestionis / Chapter 3 Textual Sources for the Babylonian New Year Festival During the First Millennium BCE / Chapter 4 The New Year Festival Texts / Chapter 5 Analyses / Chapter 6 The Historical and Textual Framework of the NYF Texts / Chapter 7 Conclusion / Appendix 1 Correlation NYF 2-3// NYF 4 / Appendix 2 Glossary of Akkadian Words in the NYF texts / Bibliography / Indexes / Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse -- Céline Debourse.
Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals. The festival's twelve-day paradigm is dissolved in favor of a more historically dynamic model, with the ritual texts being firmly anchored in the Hellenistic period. As part of a larger group of texts constituting what can be called Late Babylonian Priestly Literature, they reflect the Babylonian priesthoods' fears and aspirations of that time much more than an actual ritual reality.
9789004513037 9789004512955
10.1163/9789004513037 DOI
2021062612
Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian.
Assyro-Babylonian religion--Rituals--History and criticism.--Texts
Assyro-Babylonian religion--Rituals--Texts.
New Year--Assyria.
CE33
933/.03