Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture /

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...

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Main Author: Debourse, Céline (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

Subjects:

Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian.

Assyro-Babylonian religion > Rituals > Texts > History and criticism.

Assyro-Babylonian religion > Rituals > Texts.

New Year > Assyria.