Mario Liverani - Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel

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.

Mario Liverani is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Near Eastern History at the University of Rome, Italy. He is the author of many studies, including International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 16001100 BC (2001), Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography (2004), Israels History and the History of Israel (Routledge 2005) and The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy (Routledge 2014).

Niels Peter Lemche is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of many studies, including Early Israel (1985), Ancient Israel (1988), The Canaanites and Their Land (1991), The Israelites in History and Tradition (1998), Prelude to Israels Past (1998), and The Old Testament between Theology and History (2008).

Emanuel Pfoh is Assistant Professor of History of Asia & Africa at the National University of La Plata, Argentina, and Researcher at Argentinas National Research Council. He is the author of The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine (Routledge 2009) and Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age (Routledge 2016).

General Editors:

Ingrid Hjelm, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Emanuel Pfoh, National Research Council, Argentina

Changing Perspectives Subseries

Biblical Studies and the Failure of History

Changing Perspectives 3

Niels Peter Lemche

Rethinking Biblical Scholarship

Changing Perspectives 4

Philip R. Davies

Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel

Changing Perspectives 5

Mario Liverani, edited by Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh

History, Archaeology, and the Bible Forty Years after Historicity

Changing Perspectives 6

Ingrid Hjelm and Thomas L. Thompson

Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity

Changing Perspectives 7

Ingrid Hjelm and Thomas L. Thompson

Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine

Changing Perspectives 8

Keith W. Whitelam, edited by Emanuel Pfoh

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Names: Liverani, Mario, author. | Lemche, Niels Peter, editor. | Pfoh,

Emanuel, editor.

Title: Historiography, ideology and politics in the ancient Near East and

Israel : changing perspectives 5 / Mario Liverani ; edited by Niels

Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh.

Other titles: Changing perspectives 5

Description: First edition. | New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd,

2021. | Series: Copenhagen international seminar | Includes

bibliographical references and index. | Some essays translated from Italian.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021003906 (print) | LCCN 2021003907 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780367742485 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367742584 (paperback) |

ISBN 9781003157717 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Middle EastHistoryTo 622Historiography. |

Middle EastHistoryTo 622.

Classification: LCC DS62.2 .L579 2021 (print) | LCC DS62.2 (ebook) |

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LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003906

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003157717

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The chapters in this volume appeared originally in the following journals and collections of scholarly papers and are republished here by the kind permission of the respective publishers and editors. They are listed below in the order of their appearance in this volume:

1. Ma nel settimo anno, in H. Cazelles (ed.), Studi sullOriente e la Bibbia offerti al P. Giovanni Rinaldi nel 60 compleanno da allievi, colleghi, amici (Genova: Studio e Vita, 1967), pp. 4953.

2. Lepica ugaritica nel suo contesto storico e letterario, in Atti del convegno internazionale sul tema: la poesia epica e la sua formazione. Roma, 28 marzo -3 aprile 1969 (Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura 367, quaderno 139; Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1970), pp. 85969.

3. Memorandum on the Approach to Historiographic Texts, Orientalia NS 42 (1973), pp. 17894.

4. The Tribunal of History. Judicial Origins of Ancient Near Eastern Historiography, Cadmo: Revista de Histria Antiga 10 (2000), pp. 24354.

5. e , in L. Aru et al. (eds.), Studi in onore di Edoardo Volterra (6 vols.; Pubblicazioni della Facolta di Giurisprudenza dellUniversit di Roma 4045; Milano: Giuffr, 1971), vol. 6, pp. 5574.

6. Guerra santa e guerra giusta nel Vicino Oriente antico (circa 1600600 a.C.), Studi Storici 43 (2002), pp. 63959.

7. The Pharaohs Body in the Amarna Letters, in M.G. Biga and M. Liverani (eds.), Ana turri gimilli. Studi dedicati al Padre Werner R. Mayer, S.J. da amici e allievi (Roma: Universit degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 2010), pp. 14775.

8. Hattushili alle prese con la propaganda ramesside, Orientalia NS 59 (1990), pp. 20717.