Add to ORKGIn this paper, dedicated to Bibek Hruska, Professor Sasson examines letters exchanged between the elite of the ancient city of Mari. His purpose in doing so is to discover what is meant when rulers were "deemed touched by godhood."Divinity SchoolReprinted with permission from Islet
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This essay examines the representation of kingship in Behn's two early tragicomedies, The Young King...
Secrecy and the Gods is a comparative mythological study of the human reception and treatment of div...
Studies of Sumerian royal literature have primarily focused on the poems written for the rulers of t...
Ancient documents from Mesopotamia included "prophetic" texts found at the palace of the city of Mar...
In Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, the king was said to be installed by divine...
The topic of divine kingship in Mesopotamia, and in the Ur III period (ca. 2112-2004 B.C.E.) in part...
In this article, Professor Sasson's focus is on the relationship shared by Mari and the Bible. The "...
This paper argues that numismatic representations portraying living Seleukid kings as divine can be ...
Professor Jack Sasson uses the Mari letters to reconstruct a year in the ancient city of Mari during...
This thesis sets out to examine a number of linguistic topoi from Ramesside Egypt which are utilised...
Professor Jack Sasson explores the ancient text known as BM13912. In doing so he creates a profile o...
This article analyzes different genres within the broader, generic designation of ‘divine correspond...
International audienceAfter a historiographical synthesis which highlights the changes in the perspe...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-86)In this thesis, examination of the art of the Amama...
Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal autho...
This essay examines the representation of kingship in Behn's two early tragicomedies, The Young King...
Secrecy and the Gods is a comparative mythological study of the human reception and treatment of div...
Studies of Sumerian royal literature have primarily focused on the poems written for the rulers of t...