Religion and power
Subtitle: divine kingship in the ancient world and beyond
By: edited by Nicole Brisch
Series: University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminars -- no. 4
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781885923554
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The divine prototypes / Gebhard J. Selz; title: The mortal kings of Ur : a short century of divine rule in ancient Mesopotamia / Piotr Michalowski; title: Aspects of kingship in ancient Egypt / Paul John Frandsen; title: Touched by the gods : visual evidence for the divine status of rulers in the ancient Near East / Irene J. Winter; title: Dieu et mon droit : kingship in late Babylonian and early Persian times / Erica Ehrenberg; title: The king is dead, long live the king : the last days of the Šu-Sîn cult at Ešnunna and its aftermath / Clemens Reichel; title: Royal deification : an ambiguation mechanism for the creation of courtier subjectivities / Reinhard Bernbeck; title: The sacralized body of he Akwapim king / Michelle Gilbert; title: Maya divine kingship / David Freidel; title: Human and divine kingship in early China : comparative reflections / Michael Puett; title: The role of religion in Achaemenian imperialism / Bruce Lincoln; title: Divinity and power in ancient Rome / Greg Woolf; title: Divine kingship in Mesopotamia, a fleeting phenomenon / Jerrold S. Cooper; title: When gods ruled : comments on divine kingship / Kathleen D. Morrison.