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Reconstructing the Temple

By Davis

Reconstructing the Temple

By Davis

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This book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in therhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of recent history and to associate their reigns with an earlier and more illustrious past.
Product details
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
2019-09-03
Publication Date:
2015-04-14
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190868961
ISBN13:
9780190868963
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
523 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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