Baal and the Politics of Poetry (The Ancient Word)

Tugendhaft, Aaron

Routledge（2017/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 166 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138063624
• DDC分類 892.67

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Baal and the Modern Study of Myth

Chapter 2: The Baal Cycle and Bronze Age Politics

Chapter 3: Divine Combat as Political Discourse at Mari

Chapter 4: The Politics of Time

Chapter 5: Unsettling Sovereignty

Chapter 6: Kinship Contested

Conclusion

Appendix: The Envoy Scene (Ktu 1.2 I)

Bibliography

Index