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OverviewThis book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “vanquished” to offer a new paradigm for studying representations of past violence across diverse media, from funerary texts to literary works, chronicles, monumental reliefs, and other material artefacts such as ruins. It thus paves the way for a new comparative approach to the study of collective violence in the ancient world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sonja Ammann , Helge Bezold , Stephen Germany , Julia RhyderPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 135 Weight: 0.630kg ISBN: 9789004683174ISBN 10: 9004683178 Pages: 286 Publication Date: 05 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Sonja Ammann 2 The Ruins of Jericho (Joshua 6) and the Memorialization of Violence Angelika Berlejung 3 Memorializing Saul’s Wars in Samuel and Chronicles Stephen Germany 4 Fighting Annihilation: The Justification of Collective Violence in the Book of Esther and Beyond Helge Bezold 5 Hellenizing Hanukkah: Reframing War Commemoration in 1 and 2 Maccabees Julia Rhyder 6 Memories of Violence in the Material Imagery of Karkamiš and Samʾal: The Motifs of Severed Heads and the Enemy Under Chariot Horses Izak Cornelius 7 Israel’s Violence in Egypt’s Cultural Memory Antonio Loprieno 8 Real Fights and Burlesque Parody: The Depiction of Violence in the Inaros Cycle Damien Agut-Labordère 9 Material Responses to Collective Violence in Classical Athens Nathan T. Arrington 10 Remembering and Forgetting the Sack of Athens David C. Yates 11 The Darkest Hour (?): Military Defeats during the Second Punic War in Roman Memory Culture Simon Lentzsch 12 Rebellious Narratives, Repeat Engagements, and Roman Historiography Jessica Clark IndexReviewsAuthor InformationSonja Ammann, Ph.D. (University of Göttingen, 2014), is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Basel. She is currently directing a research project on Transforming Memories of Collective Violence in the Hebrew Bible funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her recent publications deal with the Babylonian conquest as a cultural trauma. Helge Bezold, Ph.D. (University of Basel, 2022), is a post-doctoral researcher and teacher at the University of Marburg, Germany. His research focuses on representations of violence and power in the Hebrew and Greek Old Testament. His dissertation was published as Esther – Eine Gewaltgeschichte. Die Gewaltdarstellungen in der hebräischen und griechischen Esterüberlieferung (De Gruyter, 2023). Stephen Germany, Ph.D. (Emory University, 2016), is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Basel. His publications focus on the formation of the narrative literature of the Hebrew Bible, including The Exodus-Conquest Narrative: The Composition of the Non-Priestly Narratives in Exodus–Joshua (Mohr Siebeck, 2017). Julia Rhyder, Ph.D. (University of Lausanne, 2018), is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She has published widely on ritual in the Hebrew Bible and the history of Israelite religion, including Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26 (Mohr Siebeck, 2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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