Title Baal and the Politics of Poetry

Edition First edition Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF Series The Ancient Word Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Series editorâ#x80;#x99;s preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Late Bronze Age Kings -- Introduction -- 1 Baal and the modern study of myth -- 2 The Baal Cycle and Bronze Age politics -- 3 Divine combat as political discourse at Mari -- 4 The politics of time -- 5 Unsettling sovereignty -- 6 Kinship contested -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Envoy Scene (KTU 1.2 I 11â#x80;#x93;46) -- Bibliography Summary 880-01 "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."--Provided by publisher 880-01/(Q "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©Ø℗ђ℗ؤin antiquity, and beyond."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Baal (Canaanite deity) SUBJECT Baal (Canaanite deity) fast Baal cycle. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94068826 Baal cycle fast Subject Inscriptions, Semitic -- Syria -- Ugarit (Extinct city) Ugaritic language -- Texts Politics in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. Inscriptions, Semitic Politics in literature Religion Ugaritic language SUBJECT Ugarit (Extinct city) -- Religion Subject Syria -- Ugarit (Extinct city) Genre/Form Texts Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315160894 1315160897 9781351663779 1351663771

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