Of priests and kings : : the Babylonian new year festival in the last age of cuneiform culture / / 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...

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Superior document:Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 127
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 127.
Physical Description:1 online resource (524 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Céline Debourse
  • Copyright Page / Céline Debourse
  • Acknowledgments / Céline Debourse
  • Abbreviations / Céline Debourse
  • Chapter 1 Introduction / Céline Debourse
  • Chapter 2 Status Quaestionis / Céline Debourse
  • 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 / Céline Debourse
  • 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.