Of Priests and Kings - The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Dr. Céline Debourse is a Mandel-Scholion postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published articles on the NYF and LB Priestly Literature (together with M. Jursa). Her research focus lies on history, religion, and cult in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Céline Debourse
• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 10.02.2022
• EAN: 9789004512955
• ISBN: 978-90-04-51295-5
• Seiten: 524
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 241 mm x 33 mm
• Gewicht: 848 g
• Serie: Culture and History of the Anc
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum