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Ancestral Throne
ancient Near East studies
ancient near eastern literature
Ashur Uballit
Author_Aaron Tugendhaft
Baal
Baal Cycle
Babylonian Poem
bronze age near east
Bronze Age religion
bronze age ugarit
Cassirer's Work
Cassirer’s Work
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Charles Texier
Cultic Lists
David's Son
David’s Son
divine kingship
Enuma Elish
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Hittite King
Hittite King Suppiluliuma
Holy Mountain
Ilimilku
King Ship
Kingship
Late Bronze Age
Mariote King
Muwatalli II
myth interpretation
near eastern literature
near eastern politics
near eastern religion
Niqmaddu II
of baal
Olden God
poetry and politics in antiquity
political theology
politics and literature in the near east
politics in the ancient near east
politics in ugarit
Ras Shamra
Shakespeare's Richard II
Shakespeare’s Richard II
Sweet Oil
Tudhaliya IV
ugarit and the Hittite empire
ugarit in the thirteenth century BCE
Ugaritic Baal cycle
ugaritic cuneiform tablets
Ugaritic literature
Ugaritic Poem
ugaritic religion
Yamm's Messengers
Yamm’s Messengers
Product details
- ISBN 9781138063624
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion have interacted—in antiquity, and beyond.
Aaron Tugendhaft is Collegiate Assistant Professor of the Humanities and Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
