Iconoclasm and text destruction in the ancient Near East and beyond /

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Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, [2012].
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 528 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Oriental Institute seminars, 1559-2944 ; number 8 University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 8.
Subject:	Antiquities Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. Iconoclasm Manuscripts -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. Manuscripts -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Middle East. Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Middle East. Iconoclasm -- Middle East. Middle East -- Antiquities. Middle East
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9107458

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Varying Form of Title:	Iconoclasm and text destruction
Other authors / contributors:	Guralnick, Eleanor, honouree. May, Natalie N. (Natalie Naomi), editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9781885923905 1885923902
Notes:	"The Oriental Institute dedicates this volume to the memory of Eleanor Guralnick, 1929-2012." Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Web site, viewed on May 9, 2013).
Summary:	The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute April 8-9, 2011. The purpose of the conference was to analyze the cases of and reasons for mutilation of texts and images in Near Eastern antiquity. Destruction of images and texts has a universal character; it is inherent in various societies and periods of human history. Together with the mutilation of human beings, it was a widespread and highly significant phenomenon in the ancient Near East. However, the goals meant to be realized by this process differed from those aimed at in other cultures. For example, iconoclasm of the French and Russian revolutions, as well as the Post-Soviet iconoclasm, did not have any religious purposes. Moreover, modern comprehension of iconoclasm is strongly influenced by its conception during the Reformation. This volume explores iconoclasm and text destruction in ancient Near Eastern antiquity through examination of the anthropological, cultural, historical, and political aspects of these practices. Broad interdisciplinary comparison with similar phenomena in the other cultures and periods contribute to better understanding them. -- from http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9781885923905
Other form:	Print version: Iconoclasm and text destruction in the ancient Near East and beyond 9781885923905

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Preface
1. Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East
Section 1. "Iconoclasm Begins at Sumer" and Akkad
2. Mutilation of Image and Text in Early Sumerian Sources
3. Gudea of Lagash: Iconoclasm or Tooth of Time?
4. Damnatio Memoriae: The Old Akkadian Evidence for Destruction of Name and Destruction of Person
Section 2. Iconoclasm as an Instrument of Politics
5. Death of Statues and Rebirth of Gods
6. Shared Fates: Gaza and Ekron as Examples for the Assyrian Religious Policy in the West
7. Getting Smashed at the Victory Celebration, or What Happened to Esarhaddon's so-called Vassal Treaties and Why
Section 3. How the Images Die and Why?
8. "Ali-talimu - What Can Be Learned from the Destruction of Figurative Complexes?
9. The Hypercoherent Icon: Knowledge, Rationalization, and Disenchantment at Nineveh
Section 4. Iconoclasm and the Bible
10. What Can Go Wrong with an Idol?
11. Text Destruction and Iconoclasm in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East?
Section 5. Beyond Mesopotamia
12. Episodes of Iconoclasm in the Egyptian New Kingdom
13. Killing the Image, Killing the Essence: The Destruction of Text and Figures in Ancient Egyptian Thought, Ritual, and 'Ritualized History'
14. Hittite Iconoclasm: Disconnecting the Icon, Disempowering the Referent
Section 6. Classical Antiquity and Byzantium
15. Performing the Frontier: The Abduction and Destruction of Religious and Political Signifiers in Graeco-Persian Conflicts
16. Looking for Iconophobia and Iconoclasm in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Section 7. Reformation and Modernity
17. Idolatry and Iconoclasm: Alien Religions and Reformation
18. Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin
19. A Partially Re-cut Relief from Khorsabad

Iconoclasm and text destruction in the ancient Near East and beyond /

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