Change, Order, Remembrance New

By collecting contributions from philologists, historians, and archaeologists of the Ancient Near East focusing on specific case studies that encompass the area from Anatolia to Mesopotamia and the Levant in the second and first millennium BCE, the volume aims at investigating representations and remembrances of crises and their aftermaths in textual, visual-art, and archaeological evidence. The volume focuses on moments of crisis and their representations in various media, and crucially also on questions linked to the aftermaths of crises. Particularly relevant are questions of how a group or a society reconstitutes itself after a crisis as well as how the transition or the change becomes manifest. Finally, the element of religion also produces significant questions, for instance, how religious thinking and practice intervene in dealing with a crisis and its aftermath, and what kind of innovation or change a crisis could spark in and through religion, as well as how a crisis is remembered.

Marta Pallavidini / Johannes Bach / Costanza Coppini: Change, Order, Remembrance: Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East. A Brief Introduction

Ana Arroyo: Kurunt(iy)a’s Rock Relief of Hatip and His Use of the Title MAGNUS.REX

Marta Pallavidini: Religion and Politics in the Hittite Empire: A Crisis and its Perception in the “Apology” of Ḫattušili III

Birgit Christiansen: Oracular Procedures as a Strategy for Coping with Crises at the Hittite Royal Court

Alvise Matessi / Nathan Lovejoy: Resilient Vines? Religious Motifs and Areal Contacts Between Central Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Post-Hittite Period

Jamie Novotny / Frauke Weiershäuser: A Temple Collapses: How to Deal with a Religious Crisis in Neo-Babylonian Sippar

Johannes Bach: Assyrian Royal Crisis Narratives and the Great Ištar Prayer

Costanza Coppini: Coping with the New: Resilience in Cultural Identity Between the Late Bronze and the Iron Age in Northern Mesopotamia