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

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.

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Call Number: CE33

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Copyright Page /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Acknowledgments /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Abbreviations /
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  • Chapter 1 Introduction /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Chapter 2 Status Quaestionis /
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  • Chapter 3 Textual Sources for the Babylonian New Year Festival During the First Millennium BCE /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Chapter 4 The New Year Festival Texts /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Chapter 5 Analyses /
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  • Chapter 6 The Historical and Textual Framework of the NYF Texts /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Appendix 1 Correlation NYF 2-3// NYF 4 /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Appendix 2 Glossary of Akkadian Words in the NYF texts /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Bibliography /
  • Céline Debourse
  • Indexes /
  • Céline Debourse.