Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel : Changing Perspectives 5 (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Editorial note; List of abbreviations; Introduction (Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh); Part I: Ancient Near Eastern Historiography; 1. ‘But in the Seventh Year …’; 2. The Ugaritic epic in its historical and literary context; 3. Memorandum on the approach to historiographic texts; 4. The tribunal of history: Judicial origins of Ancient Near Eastern historiography; Part II: Ideology and Propaganda in the Ancient Near East; 5. Συδ?κ and Μισ?ρ; 6. Holy war and just war in the Ancient Near East; 7. The Pharaoh’s body in the Amarna letters; 8. ?attu?ili dealing with Ramesside propaganda; 9. The ideology of the Assyrian empire; 10. Kingship ideology in Assyria and Israel; 11. The king in the palace; Part III: Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age; 12. Contrasts and confluences of political conceptions in the Amarna period; 13. Political lexicon and political ideologies in the Amarna letters; 14. Refugees in Syria in the Late Bronze Age; 15. Becoming ?abiru; Part IV: The Old Testament and the History of Israel; 16. The ‘origins’ of Israel: An unachievable project of ethnogenetic research; 17. New developments in the study of the history of biblical Israel; 18. The Book of Kings and Ancient Near Eastern historiography; Index