Очередное обновление нашей цифровой библиотеки.
📕 Liverani, M. (2021). Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel. Edited by N. P. Lemche, & E. Pfoh. London & New York: Routledge.
In this volume, Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the Ancient Near East.
This collection contains 18 essays, 11 of which have originally been published in Italian and are now published in English for the first time. It represents an important contribution to Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies, exposing the innovative interpretations of Liverani on many historical and ideological aspects of ancient society. Topics range from the Amarna letters and the Ugaritic epic, to the ‘origins’ of Israel.
Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel will be an invaluable resource for Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical scholars, as well as graduate and post-graduate students.
📕 Kelly, A., & Metcalf, C. (Eds.). (2021). Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synthesis. Old cases are re-examined, new examples discussed, and the whole range of scholarly opinions, past and present, are analysed, critiqued, and contextualised. While direct textual comparisons still have something to show us, the methodologies advanced here turn their attention to deeper structures and wider dynamics of interaction and influence that respect the cultural autonomy and integrity of all the ancient participants.
📕 de Martino, S. (Ed.). (2022). Handbook of Hittite Empire: Power Structures. Boston & Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
This handbook offers an overview of the political, administrative and economic structure of the Hittite empire in a diachronic perspective, from the Old Kingdom until the fall of the Hatti state. It will deal with: the relation between environment and political power; the political and administrative structure; war; religion and power.
📕 Hundley, M. (2022). Yahweh among the Gods: The Divine in Genesis, Exodus, and the Ancient Near East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
In this study, Michael Hundley explores the diverse deities of ancient Near Eastern and biblical literature, from deified doors and diseases to the masters of the universe. Using data from Mesopotamia, Hittite Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and non-priestly Genesis and Exodus, Hundley explains their context-specific approach to deity, which produces complex and seemingly contradictory portraits. He suggests that ancient deities gained prominence primarily by co-opting the attributes of other deities, rather than by denying their existence or inventing new powers. He demonstrates that the primary difference between biblical and ancient Near Eastern presentations lies in their rhetorical goals, not their conceptions of gods. While others promote divine supremacy, Genesis and Exodus promote exclusive worship. Hundley argues that this monolatry redefined the biblical divine sphere and paved the way for the later development of monotheism and monotheistic explanations of evil.
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