Description
| Summary: | 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 the rhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, [221] pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 9780190868987
0190868988
9780190868994
0190868996
9780190868970
019086897X |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 13, 2019). |
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