scholarly journals The Concept of Territories and Borders in Hittites’ Royal Ideology

Orient ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (0) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Hajime YAMAMOTO
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2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Frank Ueberschaer

Abstract This article investigates the different stages in the formation of Ps 45 and will point out their purposes by analyzing the acting characters, their positions, and their relationships. The study will suggest a new understanding of שגל and emphasize the importance of the frame with the opening verses and closing remarks, thus gaining a new approach to understanding Ps 45 as both an expression of royal ideology and of scribal self-confidence.


Author(s):  
Richard Stoneman

This chapter discusses how Alexander came to India with a determination to stamp on the alien land a character that he and his fellow Macedonians could recognize. In the next generation, the ethnographic approach of Megasthenes to his subject was determined in many ways by Alexander's vision of India. One notable example is his treatment of the most prominent “gods of India,” Heracles and Dionysus. Why was Alexander expecting to find these two gods there, and why did he attach such importance to them? The origin of their prominence lies in the role of both gods in Macedonian royal ideology, and hence in Alexander's mythologization of his expedition in heroic terms. That is why Megasthenes expected to find them in India.


2019 ◽  
pp. 98-109
Author(s):  
Mark G. Brett

The gōlāh-oriented vision of Ezra was opposed in the scroll of Isaiah, which in Isaiah 49–55 called for a reconciliation of Returnees and Remainees within Yhwh’s own empire. Identifying King Cyrus as a messiah in Isa 45:1 might well have sacrificed messianic hopes, but this is only an apparent concession to the ruling powers. Many of Isaiah’s texts have in fact mimicked the imperial administration in order to claim jurisdiction for Yhwh’s torah not only within the limited state imagined in the Deuteronomic Code but also across the many nations of the empire. Isaiah’s vision of peaceable rule interacts with some distinctive features of Iranian royal ideology, including the symbolism of royal parklands. Isaiah’s Eden theology mimics the Persian paradises, while envisaging the rule of God in a this-worldly eschatology.


2020 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-322
Author(s):  
Julien Smith
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