Culture of defeat : submission in written sources and the archaeological record. Proceedings of a joint seminar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, October 2017 /
Culture of Defeat is based on a 2017 conference focusing on the impact on, and responses by, the defeated parties in conflicts in the ancient Near East. Shifting the focus of analysis from the conqueror to the vanquished, the (re-) examination of written sources and the archaeological record sheds n...
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Piscataway, New Jersey :
Gorgias Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Gorgias studies in the ancient Near East.
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Table of Contents:
- Lamentations 1 as response to defeat / Marianne Grohmann
- Why was Psalm 79 composed ? / Yair Zakovitch
- Picturing defeat to build resilience : a reading of the first book of the Hebrew Psalter / Danilio Verde
- Doomed prophets : the function of cult officials in times of destruction as a literary topic in ancient Near Eastern lament literature as well as in the Book of Jeremiah / Sarah Köhler
- Lost the battle? Three case studies of military defeat ; rewrite history and claim you won the war, ignore the defeat and consolidate power, or pray to God / Dan 'el Kahn
- Defeat literature in the cult of the victorious : ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian city laments / Uri Gabbay
- A new hope : the New Year's Festival texts as a cultural reaction to defeat / Céline Debourse
- The sound of silence : the destruction of Babylon by Sennacherib and the Babylonian chronicles / Yuval Levavi
- Assyria in Egypt : how to trace defeat in ancient Egyptian sources / Felix Höflmayer
- After the flames died down : defeat, destruction, and forced abandonment in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant / Igor Kreimerman
- After the storm : political, economic and socio-demographic aspects of the Assyrian defeat of the southern Levant / Katharina Streit.